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Briana Dawson
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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07-27-2009 13:37
I know that Ubuntu can write to FAT32 partitions. But i recall sending files from my FAT partition to my regular NTFS partitions while in Ubu... I am just so confused. Is it that Linux OS's need a FAT32 file system and wont work on a NTFS? But they can WRITE data to an NTFS? Right? or wrong? My problem is this: I want to reinstall Ubu, but i know that in my general use of Ubu i will have to move data around between NTFS and FAT32 volumes. I also use a torrent program and have to move files from the incoming 300gig FAT partition to the other NTFS volumes where the data needs to be. And what about when I am in SL and i take a snapshot to hard drive and the partition being written on is a NTFS volume (My Second Life partition)? Is that bad to do under Ubu?? I would hate to be stuck in Windows (even windows 7), and i don't want to make all my partitions FAT32 because that's like 2TBs worth of reformatting and i would need a place to back up all that data onto while i reformatted the other partitions to FAT32. But if i do make everything FAT32 (except my windows 7 partition) then i would not have any problems with my data being written to the drives while in UBU and then the data being used by windows from over the network or what not... I am so confused.  |
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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07-27-2009 14:31
Google "ubuntu ntfs support", there are many useful results. Best is probably https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G# |
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Lance Corrimal
I don't do stupid.
Join date: 9 Jun 2006
Posts: 877
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07-27-2009 22:25
or the other way around:
format a partition as ext3, with the right inode size, then install ext2ifs on windows.
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Raloc Dorado
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Join date: 3 Dec 2006
Posts: 23
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Ntfs
07-28-2009 00:11
My Ubuntu 9.04 can write to NTFS. I don't recall having to do anything special. It sees a second NTFS partition immediately, but not the Windows 7 boot partition. Did you try a live CD boot of the latest version to see what happens?
Both are 32 bit versions.
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
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07-28-2009 01:59
If you look at the Ubuntu wiki page I linked to, it says that ntfs-3g is included in Ubuntu 8.10. If the latest version is 9.04 then it's likely to already be there.
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Osgeld Barmy
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Join date: 22 Mar 2005
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07-28-2009 16:42
Its also well known its very flakey about writing to NTFS partitions, it could work fine and one day totally toss the whole partition
your millage may vary
on my 500gb drive ive got 300gig for ubuntu 9, 150gb for windows xp and a 50 gig fat32 partitions
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