[KLUG Members] Mount NTFS with Linux

[Miles Pschigoda]

Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <awilliam at whitemice.org>:

> 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?
>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).
> 

Now, I wouldn't exactly say that.  The 2.4.x, and probably before
though I can't recall, has read-only support for NTFS in stable
condition. The 2.6.8 kernel that I am running now has NTFS ro, and rw
in stable [though, the rw is a bit of a pain, as the filesize can't
change, and you must open the file "write" no "append"].  I have to
say though, I don't like mounting any foreign file system, not even vfat.

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

yeah, backing up your data, always a good idea, if you can.

I'd suggest knoppix, I don't know where my disk is currently, but if I
recall it loaded my XP drive just fine [read-only].