Re: Linux, Vista dual boot

Mike Burger wrote:
Jim wrote:
Can Fedora Linux be setup to dual boot with Vista as easy as XP, what
filesystem type does Vista use ??


(Ian Malone:)
Vista uses NTFS of some description. I have a Vista/F8 dual boot which
uses a shared NTFS partition for data quite happily.


> Last I checked, NTFS support in the Linux kernel was, basically, read
> only...how do you share the data partition so easily?


Kernel NTFS is read-only (as far as I know), but the user-space NTFS support using FUSE does do read-write (I've got this on a F6/XP machine too[1]). It should be noted, I suppose, that this is a single user laptop and I'm not doing anything funny with ACLs.

[1] Haven't had the time to upgrade to F8.

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