Editing Windows files in Linux?

[Syhaeruic]

Is there a way to edit Windows text files in Linux? I don't want to copy the file and then edit it, I need to edit the file as it is.

 

[KevinO]

FAT or NTFS?

FAT/FAT32: Support is in the kernel.. You have to enable VFAT. This should give you read/write support and I think it is fairly safe to use.

NTFS: There is no safe way to do it under linux. There is write capabilities for NTFS, but they are extremely limited and can corrupt data easily.

 

[Syhaeruic]

NTFS.... argh. Thanks anyway.

 

[kerrle]

There IS A way to write NTFS files fully under Linux; you have to use the Captive NTFS driver.

The web page on how to do it is here:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

I've done this, and it works fine on my machine, at least.