[KLUG Members] Mount NTFS with Linux

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 17:14, Thomas wrote:
> What would you recommend to mount an NTFS drive from a Windows 2000
> server from a bootable Linux CD or Floppy?

Is this over the network or from a local drive?  Over the network just
use any available CIFS clients,  for local drives it is (a) a bad idea
or (b) you can use a bootable distro like Austrami which has NTFS
support - but that still doesn't negate (a).

Back-up your data first;  NTFS is only safe under Windows (and barely
then).

I've used local NTFS partitions under VMware from Linux and that is
pretty much the same as using 'real' Windows.  But I still attach, do
what I need to, and unattach as soon as possible.  The NTFS recovery
tools suck, so you don't want to leave the filesystem in an unknown
condition.