[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu: Too Good to be True?

[Kris Marsh]

On 5/7/07, LeeUKHA <mailinglists at varga.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Would kubuntu have installed a virtual drive/directory for the purposes
> > of the exercise, or should I have been running as it will be after a
> > full install?
> >
> > My mind grappled with the possibilities and I came down to the two
> > drives on my machine being NTFS rather than Fat 32.
> >
> > Still having trouble getting on line ubuntu/kubuntu. It could be the
> > terminology is different so I am putting the wrong things in the boxes
> > :-(
> >
> Rest assured that (k)Ubuntu will happily read NTFS partitions when it's
> installed.
> I'm not too sure about the latest status of NTFS writing under Linux,
> but I went the other way, my dual-boot machine has the ext3 ifs driver
> installed on the Win side so it can read/write to the Ext3 partitions...
> nice...
>
>
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I have to use Windows (unfortunately) on my work laptop, and write
support for NTFS works really well[1]. NTFS read support should be
picked up automatically when you install Kubuntu/Ubuntu.