quick question

[CJ]

NoOp wrote:
> On 05/04/2007 12:26 PM, CJ Kelley wrote:
>   
>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>     
>>> Bob Schmidt wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I get a menu in which I can choose which os I want to use. I can boot 
>>>> into windows or ubuntu.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Do you mean you can boot into Windows or Ubuntu, but can't mount the
>>> Windows drive from inside Ubuntu?  That probably means you have to
>>> update fstab.
>>>
>>> Matt Flaschen
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> hmm..my ntfs 4 drive works great on ubuntu (cant write to it though 
>> :(..but thats because of an incompatibility between windows and ubuntu)
>>
>> --cj
>>
>>     
>
> Well I'm confused... what is an ntfs 4 drive? I have a Win2KP NTFS drive
> and can read it and wright to it with no problem at all. You can do this
> in Dapper, Edgy, or Feisty. You can use the supplied NTFS driver in
> Feisty, or use NTSF-3G in Dapper & Edgy.
>
> http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs
> http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
>
>
>
>   
ntfs 4 is a partition used by xp and 2k..your using ntfs3g which gives 
ubuntu the compatibility to write to ntfs 4 (2k, xp)

ubuntu must have the technology built into it to read and write to ntfs. 
Some other mailing lists that i was on (mandriva emailing list..im never 
returning to them again) said that linux couldnt write to ntfs directly 
you had to use a third party program. i presumed that ubuntu handled 
ntfs the same way

--cj