mount a NT partition

[Frank Carreiro]

FYI...  I recently started using vmware at home and LOVE IT!!!

Version 2.0.1 for Linux works great.  I've had some minor problems here 
and there.  Mainly if I let it run too long (like a few days) my system 
seems to get slower and slower until I feel the need to reboot.  If I 
just run VMWARE with NT 4.0 for as long as I need (Usually a few hours 
at most) then shutdown VMWARE everything seems to be ok. 

Also I regularly move files from one FAT16 partition into my EXT2 
partition and back again (from Linux).  NT (VMWARE) sees the files (in 
FAT16) and I'm happy.  Nice solution.  I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone 
who is forced to use Windoze :-)

Frank



Rob Tanner wrote:

> --On 10/22/00 12:06:38 PM +0200 Urban Widmark <urban at svenskatest.se> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Rob Tanner wrote:
>> 
>>>  > What file system is the NT FS? FAT or NTFS? I was adviced not to
>>>  > mount NTFS system on to Linux. They are ok to be mounted in
>>>  > readonly mode but not in readwrite mode.
>>>  >
>>>  > Please correct me if that is not an issue now.
>>>  >
>>> 
>>> Unless I've just been lucky, it's not a problem (or not a problem
>>> anymore).  I'm the local perl guru (and have been much more
>>> successful
>> 
>> 
>> There seems to be some confusion here.
>> 
>> Mounting fat or ntfs on a remote machine over smbfs does not make
>> anything more or less dangerous/likely to fail. The potentially
>> dangerous operation is mounting a local ntfs partition (ie on a dual
>> boot machine) read-write.
>> 
>> /Urban
>> 
> 
> Oh!  You're right, I was answering the wrong question.
> 
> I was using dual boot for a while and tried it.  On redhat you're 
> perfectly safe, however.  The kernel as built in the distribution, 
> doesn't recognize NTFS, so you'd have to rebuild it with the 
> additional drivers to mount it anyway.  A better solution is VMWare.  
> With VMWare, both Linux and Windows run simultaneously and you can use 
> SAMBA to share common file space.  Moreover, even though the VMWare 
> virtual machine is just 4 Linux processes, the NT that I'm running 
> inside that VM is fully on the network and is a full participant in 
> the local domain.  And best of all, I don't like dual boots and now I 
> don't have any reason to have to.
> 
> -- Rob
> 
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