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From: Dan Podeanu <pdan@spiral.extreme.ro>
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Subject: Re: Current status of NTFS support
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On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 Wayne.Brown@altec.com wrote:

>
> So how risky is this?

Risky enough. I had to chkdsk once for half an hour after copying on an
NTFS 5. Of course, I'm not familiar with the internals of it.

>
> Also, I'll have to recreate my Linux partitions after the upgrade.  Does anyone
> know if FIPS can split a partition safely that was created under Windows
> NT?

As far as I know, it doesn't know about NTFS. I might be wrong though. Get
some Partition Magic that is bit wiser.

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