Please see subject line

I asked the same question about Slax on their forum but nobody
answered.

John Culleton
Slackware user since floppys.

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> Please see subject line
>
> I asked the same question about Slax on their forum but nobody
> answered.

Yes, but it is discouraged and I think you have to recompile the kernel.
And beware of a limitation. It can only rewrite existing files.

Ciao
Giovanni
--
A computer is like an air conditioner,
it stops working when you open Windows.
Registered Linux user #337974 < http://giovanni.homelinux.net/ >

Le Sat, 30 Sep 2006 07:30:27 -0700, john@wexfordpress.com a écrit*:

> Please see subject line

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Can Slackware write to a Windows NTFS Partition?
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> I asked the same question about Slax on their forum but nobody
> answered.

Any Linux can write to an NTFS partition, provided :

- it is NTFS4 or earlier
- you activate the write-enable switch in your kernel and have the module
(
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
ONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
)

- You take care with the repair tools : http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

- and most important factor : you are in a deep need to do it :-)
(read: it is dangerous)

- it is dangerous, mind you even with win32 it is dangerous :-)

- it IS dangerous

Personal experience with it, many success then it happened,
2 partitions really FUBAR, that's the trouble with principle of reality,
it'll wait but it'll come to you one day ;-)

Now, I haven't those problems, my only NTFS partition is in NTFS-5
and there's nothing shareable out of Win32 as it only bears the Win32
system and the only win32 prog I still use ...

Personal advice (take Yul Brinner voice to play it) :
"Don't, I did."

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 15:31:05 GMT, Giovanni <lsodgf0@home.net.it> wrote:

>john@wexfordpress.com wrote:
>> Please see subject line
>>
>> I asked the same question about Slax on their forum but nobody
>> answered.
>
>Yes, but it is discouraged and I think you have to recompile the kernel.
>And beware of a limitation. It can only rewrite existing files.

To the same length.

Useless, put in a FAT32 transfer partition if you dual boot 'doze / slack.

Another solution is vmware, run 'doze when required over slack, and
setup a virtual shared partition or directory, me not done this (yet).

I run separate 'doze and slack boxen, transfer files via localnet,
samba and/or NFS. Most reliable and important data scattered over
scattered boxen in case one gets shattered

Grant.
--
http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:33:16 +0200, Loki Harfagr <loki@DarkDesign.free.fr> wrote:

>- You take care with the repair tools : http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

See also the captive NTFS project: runs the 'doze NTFS .dlls, slow but
works reliably, according to a friend, I've not tried it.

Grant.
--
http://bugsplatter.mine.nu/

john@wexfordpress.com wrote :

> Please see subject line
>
Maybe its safer to do it the other way around. There's drivers out for
WinXP that lets you read and copy files from ext2/ext3 and ReiserFS
partitions.

Haven't tested it though, there's no WinXP around here.
--
Thomas O.

This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

Thomas Overgaard wrote:
> john@wexfordpress.com wrote :
>
> > Please see subject line
> >
> Maybe its safer to do it the other way around. There's drivers out for
> WinXP that lets you read and copy files from ext2/ext3 and ReiserFS
> partitions.
>
> Haven't tested it though, there's no WinXP around here.
> --
> Thomas O.
>
> This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.

I should have described my situation as well. I am trying to put
together a portable distro, like puppylinux or slax, to package up all
the publishing software like TeX, Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, xpdf, Scribus
and so on. I want it to be self loading from a CDR. However, with most
users using Win XP and the default NTFS, if I cannot incorporate a way
for them to store their files on the hard disk the whole thing falls
through.
Of course I have my own Win partition in FAT format as has been
suggested.

Thanks to all. I will pursue some of the suggestions made here.

John Culleton

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> Please see subject line
>
> I asked the same question about Slax on their forum but nobody
> answered.

ntfs-3g ... AFAIK it's already included in the latest Slax (or in the beta)
ntfs-3g uses FUSE, and supports reading and writing on NTFS.

--
damjan

john@wexfordpress.com wrote:

> Please see subject line

If you learn to user fuse and mount with fuser for ntfs, or alternatively
learn to use captive-ntfs, you can certainly write to an NTFS partition.
Of the two, using the fuse module or compiling it into a 2.6.X kernel is
the easier to me, but I've successfully used both to write files and read
files on NTFS partitions.

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:25:07 +0200, Thomas Overgaard wrote:

>
> john@wexfordpress.com wrote :
>
>> Please see subject line
>>
> Maybe its safer to do it the other way around. There's drivers out for
> WinXP that lets you read and copy files from ext2/ext3 and ReiserFS
> partitions.
>
> Haven't tested it though, there's no WinXP around here.

I know that it doesn't solve the problem as posted (especially as the
OP is trying to build a bootable portable distro to use on WinXP machines)
but I have used :

http://www.fs-driver.org/

successfully to read and write my ext2 partitions from Windows 2000.
Useful for moving files & data around.

Tony