Is thier a bootable Linux Distro (CD) that has NTFS read/write support?

[tnitsuj]

I tried Knoppix, but out of the box it does not seem to support rw

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Linux period does not support writing to ntfs safely. You can, but you risk corrupting the filesystem.

 

[Lonyo]

Read is fine, but write has not been perfected yet, so as said, be wary if you do want write support.
Try looking here, not out of the box, but might be the best option

 

[Nothinman]

Knoppix comes with CaptiveNTFS which the only way to get anywhere close to safe NTFS write support.

 

[rainypickles]

(linux noob) so if linux cannot write NTFS, what file system does linux use? FAT32? is there a limitation as to why linux doesnt fully support NTFS? or is it just not worth it to the linux community?

 

[clicknext]

Originally posted by: rainypickles
(linux noob) so if linux cannot write NTFS, what file system does linux use? FAT32? is there a limitation as to why linux doesnt fully support NTFS? or is it just not worth it to the linux community?

Linux uses its own file system called ext3 by default. I'm not sure if you can install linux on FAT32, but it can definately read and write fine on FAT32. There's no NTFS support because I believe it belongs to windows, and people have to write their own code to read NTFS. Sorry, that's a very simple and vague explanation because I'm not that familiar with Linux.

By the way, you might have gotten better information if you posted this in the Operating Systems forum.

 

[Nothinman]

(linux noob) so if linux cannot write NTFS, what file system does linux use? FAT32? is there a limitation as to why linux doesnt fully support NTFS? or is it just not worth it to the linux community?

Depends. I use a combination of ext3 and XFS, usually XFS except on architectures where it's not been as well tested yet. FAT is supported in read-write mode just fine but it doesn't support any permission schemes so it's not recommended unless you need a partition to share data between the two OSes. NTFS support is poor at best because MS doesn't document it properly and makes people sign NDAs and the like for the docs so the people working on Linux NTFS support have to reverse engineer the filesystem which is a very slow process.