[linux-audio-user] Which Windows XP File System is Readable by Linux?

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 10:55 -0600, Josh Lawrence wrote:
> > I was infuriated to find that the latest version of Ubuntu does not
> > AUTOMATICALLY mount a USB drive as soon as it's plugged it.  It does
> > appear on the Gnome desktop, with a nice descriptive icon, but as soon
> > as the user clicks it they get PERMISSION DENIED.
> >
> > Christ, it's 2005, do they still expect us to fuck with config files?
> 
> Lee,
> 
> Sorry to hear that, but my USB key works just fine in Ubuntu 5.10.  It
> is formatted as FAT (32, maybe?).

This was an NTFS filesystem.  Despite the presence of NTFS read-write
support in the kernel it seems to mount it such that only root can
access the filesystem.

Lee