If
you copy a Linux file to a FAT partition, the copy won??™t have permissions attached to it,
but it will be completely readable in the other OS.
Starting with Windows NT, Microsoft created a proprietary permissions-based file system
called NTFS, which is the default file system in Windows 2000, 2003, XP and Vista. The
transition to this file system has been good for Windows users because NTFS uses disk
space more efficiently than FAT, and having permissions on files and directories is more
secure. Because Microsoft has not shared many of the details of the file system, Linux
support is somewhat less transparent.
Thus, most files on an NTFS volume are read-only on Linux. You can still open and edit
these files in a Linux application, but you cannot save the changes back to the NTFS
volume. You can, however, save or copy a Linux file to a FAT-formatted floppy, USB
storage, or Zip disk, and then open and save to an NTFS volume.
NOTE
You can play most multimedia (music and video) files stored on an NTFS partition in
Linux. Because there??™s no editing/saving going on, the only potential problem lies in
support for the format.
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