Hi,
Since I installed SDL on my XP box I feel the urge to test my stuff under
Linux. I have chosen to only use NTFS partitions on my hard disks. Any
advice from SDL:ers on what works, is greatly appreciated. Maybe links on
how to proceed? I own a geforce3 which seems to be Linux friendly.
I have read about NTFS for Linux. Shouldn’t the newest distributions also
work for NTFS. The idea of having to mess around with partition magick makes
me ill. No one touches my NTFS partitions 
/Pablo
I have read about NTFS for Linux. Shouldn’t the newest distributions also
work for NTFS. The idea of having to mess around with partition magick makes
me ill. No one touches my NTFS partitions
This is pretty severely off-topic, but anyway.
As far as I’m aware, write-support for NTFS is still experimental. If
letting Partition Magic at your NTFS partitions makes you ill, letting
experimental code write to them will probably give you a hernia :>
I dual-boot XP and linux, with a 20gb NTFS partition for XP, and a few ext2
and ReiserFS partitions for linux. I haven’t dared try writing to the NTFS
partition, but I haven’t had any problems reading from it. I have a second
disc which is FAT32, which I use when I need to transfer files between the
two.
Your best bet might be to get another drive if you can.
Mike.
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I have read about NTFS for Linux. Shouldn’t the newest distributions
alsowork for NTFS. The idea of having to mess around with partition magick
makesme ill. No one touches my NTFS partitions
This is pretty severely off-topic, but anyway.
Yes but who knows this better than SDL users?
As far as I’m aware, write-support for NTFS is still experimental. If
letting Partition Magic at your NTFS partitions makes you ill, letting
experimental code write to them will probably give you a hernia :>
Hehe.
I dual-boot XP and linux, with a 20gb NTFS partition for XP, and a few
ext2
and ReiserFS partitions for linux. I haven’t dared try writing to the NTFS
partition, but I haven’t had any problems reading from it. I have a second
disc which is FAT32, which I use when I need to transfer files between the
two.Your best bet might be to get another drive if you can.
Regardless – you’ll need at least one dedicated linux partition - ext2/3
or
reiser, ideally – to be able to use linux. There are some dists that can
run from a FAT32 drive, but if you want to play with it properly you’ll
need
something that can support it’s filesystem properly without too much
overhead.
I have another drive which I have not touched yet. It’s a 10 GB so Linux and
a slimmed down development environment should fit
Well maybe I will have to add that Fat32 boot track/partition/whatever to
Hdd-0 so as to let the Linux LILO be able to boot without too much work.
Ok I though the Linux NTFS project was already done and tested in a stable
kernel, and that all of the faqs were out of date, and hadn’t realized it
yet.
/Pablo> On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Pablo de Heras Ciechomski wrote:
“Pablo de Heras Ciechomski” wrote:
This is pretty severely off-topic, but anyway.
Yes but who knows this better than SDL users?
This is not sound reasoning. Please take it offline.
| Ok I though the Linux NTFS project was already done and tested in a stable
| kernel, and that all of the faqs were out of date, and hadn’t realized it
| yet.
DON’T write to your NTFS disk using Linux, you’ll wreck it.
Here’s the little warning from linux/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt
"If you enable the dangerous(!) write support, make sure you
can recover from a complete loss of data. Also, download
the Linux-NTFS project distribution from Sourceforge at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ and always run the included
ntfsfix utility after performing a write to an NTFS partition from
Linux to fix some of the damage done by the Linux NTFS driver and to
schedule an automatic chkdsk when Windows reboots. You should run
ntfsfix after unmounting the partition in Linux but before rebooting
into Windows. During the next reboot into Windows, chkdsk will be run
automatically fixing the remaining damage. If no errors are found it
is a good indication that the driver + ntfsfix together worked to full
satisfaction. (-; "
And then…
"Please note that the experimental write support is limited to Windows
NT4 and earlier versions at the moment."On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:30:43PM +0100, Pablo de Heras Ciechomski wrote:
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Thank you all for your answers.
/Pablo