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Hello, I'm planning on using Debian on a server for a windows network. I currently have a hard drive with the data on it that I would like to be ...
  1. 09-17-2007 #1
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    Hello,
    I'm planning on using Debian on a server for a windows network. I currently have a hard drive with the data on it that I would like to be on my server. Can I just pull that HD from the current windows machine & put in my new server?? It has several partitions, all being NTFS. (It is a secondary hd on the windows machine, it doesn't have the OS) I don't know how much Linux can work w/NTFS (I thought at least in the past that it couldn't) I didn't know if I needed to put all of that data on a FAT drive so that the windows machines can access it?

    Or if it would be best all around to put data on a FAT formatted drive??

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  2. 09-18-2007 #2
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    i tend to format in fat in my fileservers, though i havent really had any problems with ntfs. best to be safe than sorry
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    Howdy,
    I know when using NTFS with win, it "Opens" up a array of permissions that I can delegate. I thought with the FAT system you don't really have that? Is this true?

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