As alert folks of a cross-platform inclination will have noticed, Paragon’s NTFS driver was accepted into the Linux kernel, and was released as part of 5.15. This has had a consequence they probably didn’t consider, though: you can now boot Linux from an NTFS partition.

But wait, there’s more. Since a Linux installation doesn’t use any of the same file or folder names in the root directory, you can even install them into the same partition.

Yes, you probably really don’t want to do this. I keep my OS’s on separate drives altogether, and rather share common data partitions where needed.

See https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/22/install_linux_on_ntfs/

#technology #opensource #Linux #NTFS

  • MarcDW
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    Hah, this is like an old flashback. Feels like umpteen million years ago when I ran Kent Robotti’s DOSLinux (UMSDOS, later LOOP), circa 1990something. Probably my first distro. The frailties of the underlying FAT filesystem was always a problem.

    Anyway, your post resulted in me just finding the DOS Subsystem for Linux. An apparent alternative to WSL.

    GitHub - haileys/doslinux: Run Linux programs on DOS - https://github.com/haileys/doslinux

    I don’t think it’s really a good idea to run Linux on a non-native filesystem.