Re: booting Linux directly from NTFS?

soerns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx schrieb:

Linux on NTFS partitions is not a good idea, because the internals of
this file system are unknown. I just had errors on such a partition,
when a Linux installer tried to only shrink it.

But the the NTFS support in kernel is stable since a while?

I doubt that. The file system can contain (at least link to) executable code, that only works under Windows. While a Linux system will never create such entries, a Windows system can and will do so, and it may complain after somebody else updated the directory structure.

Odds are good that an installer will deny to install a Linux system on a NTFS partition, in detail when that partition already contains files. Try yourself...

DoDi
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