Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:24:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:24:12 -0400 Received: from smtpnotes.altec.com ([209.149.164.10]:14084 "HELO smtpnotes.altec.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:24:01 -0400 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALTEC From: Wayne.Brown@altec.com To: Thomas Dodd , John Madden , "Petr Vandrovec" , Jesper Juhl , Dax Kelson , Aaron Lunansky cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <86256A34.00808239.00@smtpnotes.altec.com> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:23:27 -0500 Subject: Re: Current status of NTFS support Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thanks to all who offered suggestions, both on the list and privately. Rather than answer them all individually, I'm going to respond in this one message. Unfortunately the upgrade is not going to be done by me, but by our PC support team. Our laptops originally were set up with two FAT32 partitions: a small one for Win98 and applications, and a large one for data files. I used FIPS to carve off most of the large one for a swap partition and an ext2 partition. Now, because of the larger space requirements of Win2000, they're going to wipe out everything on the drives and start from scratch. They'll be doing all our laptops in a short period of time, and want to do all of them the same way. >From everything I've been told here, it sounds like my best bet is to try and talk them into replacing the two FAT32 partitions (which are contiguous) with one big one and leave my Linux partitions alone. That way I won't have to deal with NTFS at all. Fortunately, one of the PC support guys ought to be sympathetic; he runs Linux at home and has asked me for advice in getting it set up on his laptop, too. I'll see if I can talk him into doing my machine differently from the others. I have to be careful, though; my Linux use at work is tolerated, but not (yet) encouraged, and I don't want to rock the boat too much. Thanks again to everyone. Wayne - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/