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

[Gavin McCullagh]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, cout at eircom.net wrote:

> > The kernel's NTFS driver can do R/W, but it's considered somewhat
> > experimental and hazardous to your data, and thus is disabled by
> > default.
> 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.

It's not necessarily a question of being able to mount it read-write.
Linux can mount FAT32 read-write, but that doesn't mean it can resize the
partitions.  You need FIPS or partition magic for that. 

Gavin