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Phenomic69
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 Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: NTFS Support |
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| I haven't used gentoo for almost a year do to lack of time but I want to install it now for the summer. I will be dual booting but I remember there was shotty support for ntfs last year. Has this improved because i want to ahve a partition that I can share between windows and gentoo. Can i safely use ntfs or should i use fat32. Sorry i didn't really search if this is an obvious answer. I don't have a lot of time at this second. |
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koara
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:24 am Post subject: Re: NTFS Support |
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The read support for NTFS seems to be working well now. There is also write support, but it only supports overwriting existing files.
| Phenomic69 wrote: | | I haven't used gentoo for almost a year do to lack of time but I want to install it now for the summer. I will be dual booting but I remember there was shotty support for ntfs last year. Has this improved because i want to ahve a partition that I can share between windows and gentoo. Can i safely use ntfs or should i use fat32. Sorry i didn't really search if this is an obvious answer. I don't have a lot of time at this second. |
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pkdawson
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 4:56 am Post subject: Re: NTFS Support |
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| koara wrote: | | The read support for NTFS seems to be working well now. There is also write support, but it only supports overwriting existing files. |
To clarify, it only supports changing existing files without changing their size. In other words, write support is mostly useless. Use FAT32 if you need a partition to share with Windows. |
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Phenomic69
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| Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:53 am Post subject: |
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| Ok thanks guys! |
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