/. Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux

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Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux
Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday December 02, @11:45AM
from the some-serious-duct-tape dept.
caseih writes “A very neat hack uses the real ntfs.sys driver (obtained from your own windows XP partition and used via a wine-like layer (borrowed from ReactOS) to mount an ntfs partion with full read/write access. While not an ideal solution and certainly not free as in speech, this is an ideal stop-gap measure for many people trying out linux. I think that we’ll probably see this in Knoppix pretty soon.”

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

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