Re: Running Unix Program in Windows??




mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

JeffM wrote:

mrdarrett@ gmail.com wrote:

Knoppix Linux seems better than the usual Linux offerings[...]

No write access to NTFS partitions, unfortunately.

When was the last time you tried it?http://www.google.com/search?q=Knoppix+NTFS-3G&num=100

Thanks for the link! Last tried a few months ago.

Am I the only one who finds the idea of Linux writing to NTFS
to be a risky proposition? There are currently five different
versions of NTFS, and which one your PC has can vary depending
on whether you upgradded or did a fresh install. Transactional
NTFS, NTFS symbolic links, and NTFS self-healing didn't show up
until Vista; what are the chances that a future NTFS version will
be different enough so that Linux hoses it when writing?

Going the other way (Windows writing to EXT2 or EXT3) also
seems risky; do we really want to give Windows a shot at
hosing Linux?

Drive space is cheap, so on dual boot systems I just set
up a FAT16 or FAT32 partition and use it as tranfer storage,
letting both Linux and Windows read it and write to it.
That seems to be a lot safer. In VMWare, I set up network
drives on the virtual network.


References:

Writing to EXt2/EXT3 frim Windows:
[ http://win2fs.sourceforge.net/ ], [ http://www.fs-driver.org/ ],
[ http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/projects/projects.htm ] and
[ http://www.chrysocome.net/explore2fs ])

Writing to NTFS from Linux:
[ http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ ]
[ http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ ]
[ http://www.ntfs-linux.com/ ]
[ http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ ]

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com/>

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