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.

I think I saw a ext FS plug-in for Windows. Anybody ever try that?

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-----Original Message----- From:On Behalf Of Monty J. Harder Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2005 4:44 PM Subject: Re: Somewhat OT: Spyware or Cancerous Software? 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 echo "hello" >test.txt 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.