[ILUG] cfdisk/lilo and WinXP/NTFS compatible?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting cout at eircom.net (cout at eircom.net):

> So I am wrong,  so if linux can write to ntfs,  I should be able mount
> the XP partition in such a way as the Mandrake Diskdrake can resize
> the partition.

I wouldn't count on that.  To the best of my recollection, DiskDrake
is able to do its tricks because it understands the filesystem semantics
of ext2 and fat.  Having it run on a kernel that knows how to write
files to NTFS won't magically teach DiskDrake about its semantics.

> What click through the 30 asp pages of Microsoft complaint pages,
> just to be told "There is no know solution for your problem",  submit
> an email that says "Microsoft is the problem" only to be told
> "Microsoft software is better then open source software,  that's why
> we nicked the BSD tcp stack,  QED"?  Well maybe later hehe.

I thought you might be shopping for a hobby.  ;->

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