Mail Archives: cygwin/2005/06/16/14:17:56
At 02:07 PM 6/16/2005, you wrote:
>Oliver Vecernik wrote:
>
>> I misunderstood a statement in a forum. There seems to be no really
>> platform independant file system without those limitations. There is no
>> write support for NTFS under Linux and ext2/ext3 write support under
>> Windows is also not supported (at least open source). I also had a look
>> at FreeBSD, but the same situation with UFS2.
>
>There is another option, captive-NTFS. It uses Microsoft's own native
>NTFS driver (with glue code from ReactOS and WINE) to enable full
>read/write support under linux. It's completely open source and free,
>presuming that you have windows installed on the partition and have a
>valid license for it. (And if you don't have windows, why do you care
>about NTFS?) Failing that, there is an option to download a particular
>service pack from microsoft.com and unpack the ntfs.sys file.
>
>This is off topic for the cygwin list, obviously.
All true. And this very subject comes up with some regularity as it did
again just recently. I will point out, however, that there are open-source
and free ext2/ext3 drivers for at least W2K/XP. See:
<http://ext2fsd.sourceforge.net/>
<http://www.fs-driver.org/index.html>
for some options. Google for more. ;-)
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