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Gian Domeni Calgeer <gidoca@×××.ch> writes: |
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>> > Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this |
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>> > tool on board? |
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>> ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a "knoppix style" |
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>> CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon. |
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> Hi |
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> On |
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> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=29233640&forum_id=2697 |
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> Szakacsits Szabolcs mentions a LiveCD called Puppy which has ntfs-3g |
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> installed. See |
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> http://www.puppyos.net/. I haven't tried it, though. |
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PS a not to Alexander below this quote: |
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Looking thru those pages a bit I find that puppys support ntfs is a |
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system where it creates a file and then can write only inside that |
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file. ie, no ability to freely write to ntfs, like create/delete files. |
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http://www.puppyos.com/faq.htm |
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Q: NTFS partition |
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I have Windows XP installed on my computer, and the hard drive is partitioned with a single NTFS partition. When I boot up with the Puppy live-CD, the "home" file is not created on /root, so I can't have any permanent storage. Why doesn't Puppy work with NTFS? |
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A: |
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When the live-CD boots up, Puppy looks for a vfat, ext2/3 or reiserfs |
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partition, in that order, and if found creates a 256M file on it, |
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named "pup001". This file is actually a complete ext2 filesystem, and |
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Puppy mounts this on /root, and it becomes your home folder and keeps |
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all your personal files and settings. This is a very safe technique |
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and is unlikely to mess up your hard drive as no partitions are being |
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created or modified, just a file created. |
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Anyway, this technique has a problem when it comes to NTFS. Linux |
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support for NTFS is not yet complete, and currently an NTFS partition |
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can be mounted read-only but not written (safely) to. When Puppy boots |
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up, if he can't find a vfat, ext2/3 or reiserfs partition, he gives up |
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and only uses the ramdisk. |
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HOWEVER, Puppy version 0.9.7+ does have limited NTFS write |
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support. That is, the Linux NTFS driver can safely write to a file if |
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it already exists, but cannot safely create or resize a file. |
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SOLUTION: bootup Windows XP, download pup001.zip from the Puppy download site, unzip it (and you will then have a single file called pup001) and move it to C:\ (the top-level in the C: drive). Now reboot the Puppy live-CD and Puppy will use the pre-existing pup001 file as your home data file. Simple! |
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Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3 |
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does too? |
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