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Gaston

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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?
 
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

Code:
         <*> 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)  --->
 
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