> Where does write support for NTFS stand at the moment? I noticed that it's
> still marked "Dangerous" in the kernel configuration. This is important to
> me because it looks like I'll have to start using it next week. My office
> laptop is going to be "upgraded" from Windows 98 to 2000. Of course, I
> hardly ever boot into Windows any more since installing a Linux partition
> last year. But our corporate email standard forces me to use Lotus Notes,
> which I run under Wine. The Notes executables and databases are installed
> on my Windows partition. The upgrade, though, will involve wiping the hard
> drive, allocating the whole drive to a single NTFS partition, and
> reinstalling Notes after installing Windows 2000 . That means bye-bye
> FAT32 partition and hello NTFS. I can't mount it read-only because I'll
> still have to update my Notes databases from Linux. So how risky is this?
I would not recommend enabling NTFS write support for the moment...
Why don't you install Windows 2000 on a FAT32 partition (choose FAT32 during
installation)?
It's no problem running Win2k on a FAT32 partition if you don't need NTFS
ACLs.
>
> Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade. Does
> anyone know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created under
> Windows 2000/NT? It worked fine for Windows 98, but I'm a little worried
> about what might happen if I try to use it on an NTFS partition.
This will not work AFAIK
>
> I'd appreciate any advice or help anyone can give me. There's just no way
> I can stand going back to using anything but Linux for my daily work.
>
> Wayne
>
Regards,
Robert
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