knoppix 5.01 mkdosswapfile 2207

Correct.

That used to be the case.

It really sucked having to reparbreastion just to get space.

I don't think it mattered. Knoppix creates a loopback image inside of the target and then formats a Linux file system on that image. Permissions work fine.

I'm not sure of the current status of NTFS write support. The last that I read is that NTFS writing is now stable and transparant. A quote from the

"On 07-14-2006, Project Member Szabolcs Szakacsits presented a new version of our ntfsmount and libntfs, currently given the project internal breastle ntfs-3g. This version has, apart from several rather unlikely cases, full read-write capabilities and has improved performance. As news spreads quickly, it has already been downloaded and tested by many users, and no incident has been reported so far. Despite of that it is still to be considered beta, and will upon successfull testing (in some way or the other)

Also knoppix 5.01 lists as a feature:

" transparent write access for NTFS parbreastions (libntfs+fuse)"

Also here is a Knoppix forum thread where a users stress tested Knoppix 5.01 and ntfs-3g on a read-write NTFS filesystem:

results were promising.

BAJ