[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS?

[Carla Schroder]

On Tuesday 10 January 2006 19:31, mgmonza at sdf.lonestar.org wrote:
> Hello, listmembers,
>
> Can Linux be loaded on an NTFS formatted drive?  I'm pretty sure RedHat
> can't, but I wanted to try Debian anyway.
>
> This woud be on a dual boot, dual drive box with Windows XP on the smaller
> drive and maybe using some disk space on the larger on.  I'd like to put
> Linux entirely on the larger one.
>

'Fraid not. Linux can read NTFS, and with some risk, write to it, but it won't 
run on it. You have lots of other good choices- ext2/3, XFS, JFS, and 
ReiserFS. But not NTFS.

If you want to set up a shared partition that both Windows and Linux can use, 
FAT32 works fine. Or whip up a little Samba server, then you won't have to 
bother with FAT32.

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