On Saturday 09 September 2006 13:46, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Saturday 9 September 2006 22:12, Daniel Waeber wrote:
> > > Although she promised that when the NTFS drivers for Linux are
> > > developed adequately to allow her to work on her NTFS stored data
> > > from both OS, she will make an effort to migrate.  Let's see . .
> > > .
> >
> > hey, that's now
> >
> > Have a look at the captive ntfs driver [1]
> > They use the binary Windows drivers for ntfs and simulate the
> > windows kenerl calls. Therefore it is totally save (or at least as
> > save as the m$ driver ;))
> > I never tried it, becaues I have no ntfs partitions, but it sounds
> > good and its already in the ports-tree.
>
> No need for captive anymore, ntfs-g3 is open source, is in portage
> and works fine.

?  I've been using just normal ntfsprogs on my Kubuntu Desktop.  That 
works just fine.  It even scans the ntfs drive on boot to clean it 
(something that is really needed - whoever wrote the ntfs driver for 
windows needs to be slain with torture for the sloppy job he or she 
did!)

It is a bit annoying to have to wait for it to load as it waits for the 
scan to finish.

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