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Subject: RE: [announce] swap mini-howto
From: Richard Russon <ntfs@flatcap.org>
To: Troels Walsted Hansen <troels@thule.no>
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Hi Troels,

> Does anyone know if NTFS-TNG in 2.5 is robust enough to mount Windows XP
> partitions and allow overwriting of existing files such as pagefile.sys?

Yes, this shouldn't be a problem.

Anton has successfully tested overwriting normal files (not compressed,
sparse or encrypted).  This is possible with either write or mmap.

Cheers,
  FlatCap (Rich)
  ntfs@flatcap.org



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