[igotyofire]

The reason i ask is because im going to do a dual boot system pretty soon and i would like to be able to save files while in linux to my windows partition..I remember i was able too on a older system with a fat32 paritition but im not sure if NTFS is the same. I plan to have the seperate partitions on seperate drives

[macdude425]

Ummm...some distros can. I know that SUSE 9.1 will. I don't think Fedora can, though. What distro are you using?

[igotyofire]

I plan to use Mandrake 10.1, does it depend on which kernal it is?

[hilowe]

The way I remember it is that Linux has no problems reading an NTFS partition, but that there may be problems writing to an NTFS partition.

[Afterlife]

you can install NTFS read/write support to any distro. http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

I haven't had any problems writing to NTFS, but in thier own words, NTFS is an extremely complicated file system - some people have experienced problems writing...

Maybe your best bet is to create a fat32 partition on your Linux drive that you can save stuff you want to send to XP. Check out Knoppix There is a cool partitioning program on there.

[mrdinkel]

You're best best is make a fat32... IMHO

[JoeTheOdd]

When I need to move something from Linux to Windows, I just fire up my Mac and use my built in FTP server. <3.

[algu7344]

Red Hat does I know for sure, thats about it.

[Scorpio(Max)]

Originally posted by igotyofire
I plan to use Mandrake 10.1, does it depend on which kernal it is?

Be sure it depeds on linux kernel and loadable modules.
So if your kernel had been compiled without this features support...
Just make newer kernell like 2.6.10 or sth
Principally it's no matter which distro to use to NTFS be accessed as read-write.

And some important.
Existing kernels do NOT support any compressed NTFS folders clearly, there is a case NTFS will be corrupted after using its under Linux.

[m3trj]

Your best option might be to create a small FAT partition to save things.