Will Mandrake 8.2 support NTFS?

[krupini]

After spending hours on the net and particlulary on www.mandrakeforum.com, I am still as dumb as the chair I'm sittin' on. Those linux sites are so confusing, I still have no idea where the forum on www.mandrakeforum.com is.
Anyway, I was just wondering if Mandrake 8.2 Beta 3 supports NTFS file system. Also, can Windows read EXT2, XFS or any other Linux-file-system formatted drives?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Only if the linux kernel it uses supports it. I know you can read NTFS, but writing is apparently bad. And no, Windows on its own cannot read ext?fs, XFS, reiserFS, etc.

 

[Nothinman]

You can read NTFS partitions fairly reliably, writing will corrupt the partition eventually although there are workarounds.

There are a few tools to read ext2 drives in NT, even a filesystem driver that makes it look like a regular drive, but the only one I used was e2explore (or soemthing like that). But that's the only filesystem it'll read, XFS, reiserfs, etc have no drivers or attempts even made AFAIK.