NTFS in Linux
 

I've been told the NTFS writing in Linux is very iffy. A friend said he wrote to NTFS once fine, he wrote to it again and had to reformat the drive -- and he hasn't done it since.

I have a big hard-drive and I plan to split it between Red Hat Linux and Windows XP (for gaming). I want to put my music on the NTFS partition since Windows can't read EXT3. So, is there a way I can mount the NTFS as a 'read only' so theres no possible way I could mess anything up? Or is there a totally clean NTFS-writing-thingy-majig out there now? (sorry I'm half a linux noob)

Thanks in advance, as always

i'd say you should create a fat32 partition for your music files, so both OS's can access it more easily.

NTFS mounts are read-only by default. But use fat32 for shared files. Linux handles it great.