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>I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are
>not reliable in that situation.  There are times when doing this
>can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example.  'Anyone out there
>care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access?

Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands mixed up, it's the mount_ntfs=
 command I was quoting

"The windows NT/2000/XP standard filesystem, NTFS, is tightly integrated wi=
th Microsoft's kernel. To write to an NTFS partition, you must have extensi=
ve knowledge of how the filesystem works. Unfortunately, since that informa=
tion is not available from Microsoft, you can read NTFS partitions but writ=
ing may corrupt the partition. The mount command is mount_ntfs(8)."

Note: Since Microsoft holds its filesystem interface so dear, and changes i=
t regularly, don't count on this for frequent use. Using mount_ntfs can dam=
age the filesystem