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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=644351516-07112005>Are we
now able to read AND write safely to NTFS? If so, is the same true for the
NTFS that Windows 2000 and XP use, NTFS 5.0? This is what keeps me from
having all my Winders installs in total NTFS format. I always leave at
least one small partition as FAT32 for transfer. One BIG problem I have is
that all my MP3s and movie files are in NTFS drives and too big to copy all at
once over to a ext3 or other type of partition.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=644351516-07112005>I
think I saw a ext FS plug-in for Windows. Anybody ever try
that?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>*******************************************<BR>If the automobile
had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would
today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year,
killing everyone inside. - Robert X. Cringely<BR></FONT></P>
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face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B><B>On Behalf Of
</B>Monty J. Harder<BR><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:44
PM<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Somewhat OT: Spyware or Cancerous
Software?<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>I'm with Hans Reiser on this. The Registry per se exists because MS
filesystems do a horrible job of storing small snippets of information.
For example, the command</DIV>
<DIV>echo "hello" >test.txt</DIV>
<DIV>under most Unices will generally take either 512, 1024 bytes of disk
space for the inode, and a few more for the directory entry. But in MS
FAT filesystems, that same file is going to use up as much as 32 (or in a
particularly perverse situation, 64) Kb. It's not quite so horrible
under NTFS, but FAT was the norm when the Registry was invented. </DIV>
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