Ubuntu question

[Gaston]

I hope you guys don't mind but i have a feeling that i'm going to be asking a lot of questions as a try to learn linux. I have ubuntu loaded on my hard drive as the only operation system. Can it read a hard drive partioned with ntfs? And what file system does linux use?

 

[Styx]

Yes Linux can write to NTFS (a more detailed answer would be x86,amd64,ARM can)

The package you need todo it is ntfs-3g
from a command line sudo apt-get ntfs-3g

You can do it from the GUI installer util and search for ntfs, but the command-line is handy for posting on forums


What filesystem does linux use? it uses quite a few
The most common is ext3 (with ext2 used where journalling isn't needed)
but the kernel source speaks enough

         <*> Second extended fs support                                                          │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]   Ext2 extended attributes                                                          │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]     Ext2 POSIX Access Control Lists                                                 │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]     Ext2 Security Labels                                                            │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]   Ext2 execute in place support                                                     │ │  
  │ │                  <*> Ext3 journalling file system support                                                │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]   Ext3 extended attributes                                                          │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]     Ext3 POSIX Access Control Lists                                                 │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]     Ext3 Security Labels                                                            │ │  
  │ │                  < > Ext4dev/ext4 extended fs support development (EXPERIMENTAL)                         │ │  
  │ │                  < > Reiserfs support                                                                    │ │  
  │ │                  < > JFS filesystem support                                                              │ │  
  │ │                  < > XFS filesystem support                                                              │ │  
  │ │                  < > GFS2 file system support                                                            │ │  
  │ │                  < > OCFS2 file system support                                                           │ │  
  │ │                  < > Minix fs support                                                                    │ │  
  │ │                  < > ROM file system support                                                             │ │  
  │ │                  
[*] Inotify file change notification support                                            │ │  
  │ │                  
[*]   Inotify support for userspace                                                     │ │  
  │ │                  [ ] Quota support                                                                       │ │  
  │ │                  
[*] Dnotify support                                                                     │ │  
  │ │                  < > Kernel automounter support                                                          │ │  
  │ │                  < > Kernel automounter version 4 support (also supports v3)                             │ │  
  │ │                  <M> Filesystem in Userspace support                                                     │ │  
  │ │                      CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems  --->                                                        │ │  
  │ │                      DOS/FAT/NT Filesystems  --->                                                        │ │  
  │ │                      Pseudo filesystems  --->                                                            │ │  
  │ │                      Miscellaneous filesystems  --->                                                     │ │  
  │ │                  
[*] Network File Systems  --->                                                          │ │  
  │ │                      Partition Types  --->                                                               │ │  
  │ │                  {M} Native language support  --->                                                       │ │  
  │ │                  < > Distributed Lock Manager (DLM)  --->

 

[Hero999]

You can also read the ext2 filesystem from Winwoes with the freeware Ext2fs dirver.

http://www.fs-driver.org/