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Knoppix Variant Offers Full NTFS Write Support

Posted by timothy on from the like-a-hot-swiss-army-knife-through-butter dept.

mache writes "Full NTFS write support for Knoppix is under discussion on Knoppix Ideas forum and it looks that Knopper will include Captive into Knoppix 3.4. The best part of Live CD with full NTFS write support is that it actually exists in LinuxDefender, a remastered Knoppix distribution made by Bitdefender, presented at LinuxConf 2003, the annual Romanian Linux Users Group (RLUG) conference."

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  1. Legality? by duffbeer703 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If I'm skimming the Captive homepage to quickly, but it seems to me like Captive is using Microsoft DLL's to read/write NTFS filesystems.

    Seems to me like that would or will violate the Microsoft EULA and leave Knoppix users open to problems if MS changes parts of these DLLs in subsequent service packs or releases.

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    1. Re:Legality? by HolyCoitus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      It would seem unlikely that the EULA would have something in it saying that you are only allowed to use those drivers with the single operating system they came with.... Even if it did, I really doubt that would be completely enforceable? I mean, it isn't reasonable to assume that on the same computer, you can't use those drivers from an operating system that you own to access a hard drive that you own?

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  2. Re:what about linux 2.6 by ignatus · · Score: 2, Insightful
    nopes, just "partially" as in: "allmost nothing"

    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.

    http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3 .2

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  3. pagefile by hitchhacker · · Score: 4, Insightful


    Now that there is reliable NTFS write support, maybe we could get a kernel modification to use the pagefile.sys as a swap partition.

    mkswap /mnt/ntfs/pagefile.sys
    swapon /mnt/ntfs/pagefile.sys

    What about using the windows temp directory for storage of highly used apps and libs?

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  4. Re:Linux "Switcher" CD's by /dev/trash · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Step 3 would never come for me, or a majority of users because of games and financial software.

  5. Re:Nope by irc.goatse.cx+troll · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've got a 20gig ext2, 60gig ext3, and 20gig win2k3.

    Debian reads all three fine.
    Windows reads all three fine.

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