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Access data stored on NTFS drives with ease
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols has a great little review of Paragon's NTFS for Linux driver, which can help you access & recover data stored on drives formatted with NTFS from Linux. This is important stuff guys, as it helps Linux users work with Windows in ways that help us get around MSFT's attempts to lock people into their own special formats. And while Paragon's software is proprietary, it's reasonably priced, with the Personal edition (which works on a bootable CD) at only $19.95. Not bad at all.
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How can Linux read NTFS filesystems?
Robert Citek, this one is for you! Pretty much every modern Windows OS uses NTFS for its filesystem. However, Linux
has trouble reading that oh-so-proprietary filesystem. What to do, what to do … Well, the always-readable Steven J.
Vaughan-Nichols offers up several solutions in a column titled
"Linux and NTFS: peace at last?", including Captive,
NTFS for Linux (from Paragon Software), & the Linux-NTFS Project. If you're interested in accessing NTFS-formatted
drives from Linux, then ya seriously need to check these out.
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Sharing a file system among Linux, Mac OS, and Windows
When you're dual-booting (or triple-booting, or …), or when you're sharing a portable USB2/Firewire hard drive among
different boxes, all of a sudden, file systems become important. NTFS isn't supported by Mac OS, to my knowledge, and
while you can read it under Linux, writing is still iffy. Fat32 is supported by everyone, but that's kind of a sucky
filesystem. So what can you use?
Ext2 isn't a bad choice, since it's supported under Mac OS X, Linux (duh), and even Windows, to some degree.
Mac OS X - Ext2fsx
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
Windows - Explore2fs
http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/explore2fs.htm
Mac OS X & Linux can read & write Ext2; Windows, however, can only read. However, with all OS's you get
support for large partitions and large file sizes, which is great. Too bad you don't get journaling … ...
Knoppix 3.8.1 out now!
There's a new Knoppix in town, & this is the best one yet! Knoppix 3.8.1 dropped a few days ago, and you can
download the 700 MB ISO from a variety of places
(PLEASE use BitTorrent!). New stuff includes: kernel 2.6.11 (no more
2.4), write support for all virtual directories using UNIONFS so you can install software even without writable file
systems (!), support for Centrino2 wireless (awesome!), the ability to create a permanent /home on a hard drive
(even if it's formatted as NTFS), KDE 3.3.2, Gimp 2.2.4, & OpenOffice 1.1.4. That's quite an upgrade! I've been
using it for over a week, & it's really nice.
A nice review of the new Knoppix can be found at O'Reilly. Kyle Rankin's
"Knoppix 3.8 and UnionFS. Wow. Just Wow." focuses on, uh, UNIONFS.
It's a good piece. Read it.
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