Re: [Nolug] Finding a new hard drive in Redhat9

Thou spake:
>sorry about so many messages as I have just said, I am VERY new with linux.
> Ok. I got a second hard drive, and I have all my MP3's on it. I use it in
> windows to listen to music, and now I want to use it in Linux as well. It
> is in NTFS file system so I figured that is why I can't find it under disk
> management so I downloaded a new kernel to support NTFS and installed it
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/

<snip>

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet, but as far as I know, NTFS
support under Linux is iffy at best. You can do ok if you mount the partition
read-only, but if you mount it writable and try to write to it, you might
very well end up losing all of your data.

-- 
Joey Kelly
< Minister of the Gospel | Computer Networking Consultant >
http://joeykelly.net
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
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