Mount Windows partitions

[chroniker]

I downloaded and installed Kubuntu, Ubuntu with KDE instead of Gnome, and have a question.

 

The default installation does not mount windows partitions, but their wiki gives instructions on how to auto mount win partitions. These instructions also say that this should be set to read only because writing to NTFS is not safe.

 

Ubuntu - wikipage

 

Why, what can happen?

 

Under XP I had this drive set up as my "download to" drive, I would like to continue to do so and access it with my other XP machine.

[MikeJ]

NTFS is a proprietary file system. As such, drivers to support it are primarily reverse engineered and write support has not been 100% completed yet.

 

Writing to an NTFS filesystem from Linux could result in corrupt data. If you need to write from windows and linux, you should either reformat the partition as FAT-32 or as EXT2/EXT3 and use an EXT2 driver for windows.

[chroniker]

NTFS is a proprietary file system.  As such, drivers to support it are primarily reverse engineered and write support has not been 100% completed yet.

 

Writing to an NTFS filesystem from Linux could result in corrupt data.  If you need to write from windows and linux, you should either reformat the partition as FAT-32 or as EXT2/EXT3 and use an EXT2 driver for windows.

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So, in other words, I need to mount as read only, move the 30GB I have stored there and reformat to FAT32, re-mount as write and move everything back?