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zapper067 · **Post subject:** a question about linux **Posted:** Fri Sep 23, 2011 5:42 am

Does linux NTFS as the HDD format?If not what is it?Just curious.

Andrew Z

Linux is able to open NTFS, I am unsure if Linux can be installed on NTFS.
The default format is "ext4" but it can be changed.

evangelikevin

Linux CAN be installed on NTFS. Some distros even have the ability to format a drive as NTFS from the installer. Also, the default filesystem is different for different distros. Ubuntu uses ext4, Fedora uses Btrfs now (if I remember correctly), and so on and so forth.

eminem_rh25

Most Linux clients can read from an NTFS Partition, and some can write.

I didn't know it was possible, and would never recommend installing Linux on an NTFS partition. The filesystem will start acting wonky dealing with POSIX permissions rather than standard Windows ACLs.

If you need a common space for file between OSes, create another partition in FAT32.

evangelikevin

eminem_rh25 wrote:

Most Linux clients can read from an NTFS Partition, and some can write.

I didn't know it was possible, and would never recommend installing Linux on an NTFS partition. The filesystem will start acting wonky dealing with POSIX permissions rather than standard Windows ACLs.

If you need a common space for file between OSes, create another partition in FAT32.

Yeah, it's POSSIBLE to install on NTFS (if you know what you're doing), but it is NOT recommended. However, if you install ext2 file system support on Windows, you can access your Linux drives from Windows. That makes things MUCH simpler. I have Windows 7, Windows 8 DP, and Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 on my computer, and using this method I can pass files back and forth with no problems.

foobar4321

NTFS cannot be used as the boot partition for Linux since it lacks support for the Unix permissions system and bootloader issues, but most Linuxes will let you write to them through the ntfs-3g driver.

soulman

This is because of the ntfs-3g package. Derp. I'm sure there's a port for Mac OS X too.

userfromhome

For Mac OS X, ntfs-3g is available through fink: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/ntfs-3g

Borosoft

Andrew Z wrote:

Linux is able to open NTFS, I am unsure if Linux can be installed on NTFS.
The default format is "ext4" but it can be changed.

Do you know if you can get ACL support on ext4?

username

Linux is better to Install using ext partition.
Linux can read NTFS, but Windows cannot read ext partitions.
But you can use this application

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd/ or http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2read/

paramount

soulman wrote:

This is because of the ntfs-3g package. Derp. I'm sure there's a port for Mac OS X too.

Yeah, there is NTFS-3G for Mac too... using MacFuse. But it's very outdated.

That's better to use Paragon NTFS for Mac (it exists for Linux too), or Tuxera NTFS for Mac (There is a linux version of this too).

The both are paid software... but it's really better then Fuse+ntfs-3g. Faster and more stable.

In other hand, there is ways to read ext2 inside Windows, and HFS+ too.. this later using MacDrive (paid). It's a great pice of software.

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