Make Windows and Linux Play Nice
This article will show you how to get NTFS partitions working in Linux for read/write access, and how to get EXT3 file systems working in windows.
So you’ve installed Linux on a separate partition on your hard drive. You’ve probably noticed that you can see your Windows XP hard drive, but why can’t you write to it? Odds are, you are using Windows XP, the majority of the internet is. The problem with most Linux distributions is that they don’t come with support for writing to Windows XP’s NTFS partitions.
NTFS is a file system that was broadly used back in the day for Windows NT. Windows 98 used a system called FAT32.
FAT32 is still quite popular and has read/write access in most Linux Systems. If you’ve got an iPod, and it’s configured for Windows, you’ll notice that the filesystem is FAT32. If you’ve had windows 98 before you’ll remember that in order to make the system go faster, you probably had to defrag the hard drive all of the time.
NTFS solves some of those problems, by organizing your files in a more efficient manner, and therefore, Microsoft chose this filesystem as the default for their Windows XP operating system.
Now, the problem is, for the longest time, there wasn’t a way in Linux to write to
NTFS partitions. Microsoft wasn’t going to just jump out and write a driver for Linux.
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