Cannot read partitions

[Dotan Cohen]

On 03/10/2007, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/10/2007, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On a recently converted windows machine, I had three NTFS partitions in /media:
> > /media/hda1
> > /media/hdb1
> > /media/hdb5
> >
> > After installing Ubuntu, the user could read each of these partitions
> > (but could not write to them). /media/hda1 was the old Windows root
> > filesystem, with no files worth saving, so today I converted it into
> > jfs with gparted.
>
> Why jfs? That seems a /very/ strange choice. It's a journalling
> filesystem type typically used with IBM OS/2. What's wrong with ext3
> or even reiser?

I might give reiser a try, but I was under the impression that it is
not yet supported in *buntu.

> It's normal for Linux not to be able to write to NTFS. NTFS is a
> closed, proprietary FS; MS does not release the info for others to
> implement it, so FOSS NTFS drivers are reverse-engineered. There are
> solutions to enable write access - captive and ntfs3g - but it's
> preferable to backup the data & reformat if they're to be used with
> Linux, or if you want the ability to share data with Windows, Mac OS X
> or other OSs, use FAT32 and put up with no proper permissions, a 4GB
> max file size and so on.

I don't want to write to them, just to read from them.

Dotan Cohen

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