[KLUG Members] FYI: Fedora and NTFS

[Eric Beversluis]

After just about a full day's work (lots of learning got done--I just
didn't want to be spending my time now learning this stuff), I got it
all running. Had to download a separate RPM and then figure out how to
edit fstab to get the FAT32 and NTFS firs to mount and then to let me
have ownership and reading privileges.

Here's what I found out about things:

On p. 186 in _The Complete Guide to Linux Administration_, in what is
one of only three references to the Windows NTFS file system, Nicholas
Wells says, "Linux supports read access to this file system."
Unfortunately, while virtually every other Linux distro includes support
for reading NTFS files systems (relevant for dual-boot systems),
Fedora/Red Hat does not.

The wiki at linux-ntfs.org, FAQ 6 asks:

"6.1 Which distributions support NTFS out of the box?

The Linux Distributions that are known to support NTFS are: Mandrake,
Debian, SuSE, Gentoo, Lindows and Caldera

In fact, the pattern is, that if the name isn’t RedHat, then they will
support NTFS.

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6.2 Why don't RedHat support NTFS?

I’d really like to know. The rumours are that it’s a legal worry."

EB


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