Whats NTFS support like in Ubuntu 6.06?

[Hate]

I really don't want to convert my data drive to FAT

Is it safe to write yet?

 

[Scythe]

No, I've been reading as I want to install Ubuntu and apparently its read only, but some programs can get write but its experimental.

 

[zetec452]

Its possible to write to NTFS but risky. I looked into it a while ago and didn't bother as I didn't fancy corrupting my NTFS partition.

 

[Una]

Its not risky now, if you use ntfs-fuse 99% of the time it will be fine. Its not just ubuntu its any distro, distro has nothing to do with it. Its been "Experimental" for about 6 years now and has advanced a lot.

 

[Tuvoc]

I just installed Ubuntu, and though I'd have a shared partiton to which both OSs could read and write. I chose FAT32 thinking that would be the one, but Ubuntu sees it but can't mount it. It reads the NTFS partitions perfectly. Should I have chosen FAT not FAT32?

 

[momentimori]

Theres little difference between FAT and FAT32 apart from a biggy, maximum partition size. FAT has a maximum partition size of 2GB whereas FAT32 in theory can theoretically reach into the terrabyte range

 

[Una]

I just installed Ubuntu, and though I'd have a shared partiton to which both OSs could read and write. I chose FAT32 thinking that would be the one, but Ubuntu sees it but can't mount it. It reads the NTFS partitions perfectly. Should I have chosen FAT not FAT32?

Sure you added it to fstab/mtab correctly?

 

[Tuvoc]

Sure you added it to fstab/mtab correctly?

There was an icon for it and I clicked on it, and got an error message...

 

[Una]

Yeah that means nothing.. This is not windows, dont expect everything to work out of the box.

cat /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab and paste it here.

Also work out what your fat partition is called /dev/something..

fdisk (in linux) will tell you.

 

[cb_linus]

fdisk -l

and

df

are both quite useful for partition / filesystem info.

Also, what was error message?

 

[freebooter]

I have a shared data drive in fat32 and once fstab is set up correctly it works fine from both win and linux. I haven't heard any reasons not to use fat32 for shared data drives. As there is still a risk with writing to ntfs from linux I don't see any point in taking the chance of messing up data.

Why don't you want to format your data drive as fat32?

 

[Hate]

cause it a bit of a rubbish file system compared to EXT3 and NTFS.

the 4GB file limit and cluster sizes for one

 

[Tuvoc]

fdisk -l

and

df

are both quite useful for partition / filesystem info.

Also, what was error message?

Error message was as described in this thread by someone else.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221078

The box is running windows at the moment, so will investigate tomorrow when I boot Linux again

 

[Una]

Yeah thats a pretty useless error msg, could mean a lot of things. Tail dmesg and paste the bottom few lines where it tries to mount. You prolly got the wrong info in fstab.

 

[Tuvoc]

Yeah thats a pretty useless error msg, could mean a lot of things. Tail dmesg and paste the bottom few lines where it tries to mount. You prolly got the wrong info in fstab.

Thanks, I'll do that tomorrow

 

[BoomAM]

Its a shame that theres no 100% bullet proof, fully working and certifyed drivers for NTFS really.
That'd really make Ubuntu perfect to me.

 

[enragedchip]

So no one is aware of ntfs 3g then?

Intructions for dapper drake here: http://lunapark6.com/?p=1710

more info here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23836054&forum_id=2697

 

[BillytheImpaler]

Its a shame that theres no 100% bullet proof, fully working and certifyed drivers for NTFS really.
That'd really make Ubuntu perfect to me.

Well if Microsoft decided to release documentation for NTFS I'm sure you would see full read-write Linux support for NTFS in about five hours. They can only reverse-engineer it so far.

Captive NTFS works nicely, I hear, when you're dual-booting. It runs the XP NTFS driver in WINE by stealing it from your Windows partition. To run it outside of a dual-boot environment is copyright infringement.

 

[Fop]

Captive NTFS works nicely, I hear, when you're dual-booting. It runs the XP NTFS driver in WINE by stealing it from your Windows partition. To run it outside of a dual-boot environment is copyright infringement.

That's a cunning solution.

 

[FirebarUK]

Captive NTFS works nicely, I hear, when you're dual-booting. It runs the XP NTFS driver in WINE by stealing it from your Windows partition. To run it outside of a dual-boot environment is copyright infringement.

Works well but is very very slow by some accounts. So I guess it shouldn't be used for huge file transfers