Transfering data from a slave drive

L4T3NCY · 2007-07-04 20:14:43

I have arch installed on one of my HDD and windows xp on a separate SATA drive.
Will I be able to transfer data from the windows xp HDD to linux?

The filesystem I'm using for linux is XSF and I have NTFS.

Purch · 2007-07-04 20:44:10

Linux can safely mount ntfs as read-only. Look at mount man pages.

In fstab I have for example:

/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows-c ntfs ro,user,auto 0 0

Last edited by Purch (2007-07-04 20:51:56)

somairotevoli · 2007-07-05 00:46:21

Phrodo_00 · 2007-07-05 00:52:54

somairotevoli wrote:

Have a look @ ntfs-3g:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support

why?, he only wants to copy from a ntfs drive. The kernel ntfs module is enough for that.

somairotevoli · 2007-07-05 07:54:55

Why not, he may find he would like to copy data to the ntfs drive.

I didn't say he should use ntfs-3g. His question was answered in the first post. I only said to have a look at it.

Last edited by somairotevoli (2007-07-05 07:59:45)

veek · 2007-07-05 15:26:31

For what it's worth, I've used ntfs-3g to safely read and write data on a large frequently used NTFS partition without event for several months.

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