Mandrake and NTFS Partitions

[ComputerNut]

Ive been buzzing around getting into linux and sometime eventually ill throw on mandrake on a dual boot with XP. Question I have is, will mandrake read NTFS partitions. main reason I ask this is because, since my 160GB storage drive uses NTFS, I wanted to see if it will support NTFS partitions, if not is there a good linux distro that will?

TIA,
CN

[rightcoast]

Yes it will read it, but you won't be able to save to that partition from Mandrake, or any Linux distro, unless you convert it to FAT (I wouldn't)

You may have to tweak the etc/fstab file if it doesn't see it by itself, but that is pretty easy, you just add a line to it (what the line is depends on the mount point) I found this example
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,user,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

Just change /dev/hd** and mnt/ to what you want it to be.

HTH

[nocturnx]

You could use partition magic to create a small FAT partition to install mandrake to and save to. You will still be able to see and read files in the NTFS partition but you will have to save files to the FAT partition.