Re: Running Unix Program in Windows??

On Sep 8, 5:08 am, Guy Macon <http://www.guymacon.com/> wrote:
mrdarr...@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/>

I discovered the flavors of NTFS when attempting to run Partition
Magic on an X64 box. Partition Commander handles these flavors much
better.

While vmware is the buzz today, I still think a linux box is the way
to go. Just run Samba.

Note that Solaris is now free. I have that on another drive, but I'm
not sure if it is worth the aggravation.

.

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