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This is the file system used by Operating Systems based on MicrosoftCorporation's [WindowsNT]. Originally it grew out of Microsoft's collaberation with [IBM] over [OS/2]. Many [OS/2] people were irritated that every time you booted WindowsNT it would say that the OS/2 partition was damaged and would you like to format it?
NTFS fixes many of the Nasty Nasty problems of [FAT32]. It supports long file names properly, has permissions, even has alternative streams for files. [NTFS] like pretty much everyone else now uses zones of data with information about that zone being stored at the beginning or end.
-Linux can read NTFS drives usually, and it can write to them sometimes without completely screwing them up. This situation appears to be improved in the near future as a new developer has stepped forward to work on the [NTFS] driver.
+Linux can read NTFS drives usually, and it can write to them sometimes without completely screwing them up. This situation appears to be improved in the near future as a new developer has stepped forward to work on the [NTFS] driver. Check out the [Linux NTFS Project | http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/]. An intesting stopgap solution is [Captive | http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/], which runs MicrosoftWindows' own __ntfs.sys__ under Linux
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