pearpc live cd

[Alex]

Correction - It's stable in the latest Linux kernel. You can safely write without destroying your drive.

I might actually use my spare 5GB on disk space to make a PearPC Linux Distro...

[thebear]

let me know how it goes i was thinking of trying it with damn small linux since it's only 50m in size.

[CannotResolveSymbol]

3.2 Can the Driver write to an NTFS volume, too?

Not really, but if you only need to copy files from Linux to Windows on a dual-boot machine, see "How to write to NTFS" below for a possible way to work around the lack of write support. For write support in Linux, read on.

There are two drivers, currently. The original driver, in 2.4 has some write code in it, but it is extremely dangerous to use it. The possibility of destroying your filesystem is very high.

The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change the length, add new or delete existing files.

Adding write support will take a long time. NTFS is built like a database. Any changes you make, necessitate making changes in many places, for consistency. Make a mistake and the filesystem will be damaged, make too many mistakes and the filesystem will be destroyed. Also, the current developers are only working on NTFS as a hobby, during their free time. If you'd like to help, please email me: linux-ntfs-dev@sourceforge.net

from http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2

edit: more up-to-date version at http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id= ... olume_too, but it says the same thing

[Alex]

The Linux-NTFS project is seperate from the Linux kernel's NTFS stuff. The stuff actually in the kernel is more stable now