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Reading an NTFS5 partition in Linux?

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Praetor

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Is it at all possible to read an NTFS5 partition (created and formatted in Windows 2000) to be read by a linux OS? Being able to read AND write would be preferred, but I'd settle for reading just so I could access my MP3s. 🙂

I know linux will read a FAT16/FAT32 partition, but the drive has already been created and I don't want to spend money on partition magic to convert it back. Not that I would anyway.
 
I've heard that Linux can read NTFS file systems but it is not recommended that you write to NTFS file systems
 


<< Is it at all possible to read an NTFS5 partition (created and formatted in Windows 2000) to be read by a linux OS? Being able to read AND write would be preferred, but I'd settle for reading just so I could access my MP3s. 🙂

I know linux will read a FAT16/FAT32 partition, but the drive has already been created and I don't want to spend money on partition magic to convert it back. Not that I would anyway. >>


Read, yes. There's an NTFS module in the main kernel tree; you'll have to turn on experimental options to choose it, I believe.

For NTFS &quot;4&quot; and earlier partitions (from NT 4 and earlier) there is very limited write support (it doesn't work flawlessly, it does lots of operations in a bass-ackwards manner).

For NTFS &quot;5&quot; and later partitions (from Windows 2000 and later) there is no write support.

The driver checks the version of the partition, and limits its features accordingly.

If, as I once did whilst under the influence, you remove the check, so that you can write to any NTFS version, you'll corrupt your hard disk. At least, I did.

 
FWIW, the inverted commas around the version numbers are because the internally reported versions do not match with the &quot;official&quot; version numbers. They're officially called NTFS 4 (NT 4), NTFS 5 (Win2K), NTFS 5.1 (WinXP), but internally, they're called something else entirely.
 
wha-hah. Exactly what I wanted to hear. 🙂

It's in the tree, huh? I'm assuming 2.4.x would have it. I'd just have to recompile the kernel to get it activated, right?
 


<< wha-hah. Exactly what I wanted to hear. 🙂

It's in the tree, huh? I'm assuming 2.4.x would have it. I'd just have to recompile the kernel to get it activated, right? >>


Yeah, it's been there since at least 2.2.x. But, like I say, it's experimental. So if you don't turn on experimental options, you won't see it.
 
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