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Which Linux for Fileserving with NTFS partitions as one sole purpose use?
I have a distant history with Dos based systems so I'm not overwhelmed, but my Unix experience is entirely limited to hacking my Tivo.

So I'm kindly requesting a pointer in the right direction specifically asking which Linux would best suit my needs...

What I want to do
I wish to use an old Dell XPS-T450 Pentium 3 PC with 512MB Ram as a file server for my music, and possibly my movies for a multi-room distribution.

Ideally I'd like to be able to install 3 large x NTFS partioned hard drives and a smaller Linux boot hard drive.

The sole purpose of this machine is to stream media files via a 100MB Full Duplex Wired NIC to other Windows XP PCs and SliMP3 devices around my home.

I'm overwhelmed by the number of different Linux types available, could anyone suggest....

Which linux, hopefully freely downloadable and minimalist, linux distribution would be best for streaming fileserving purposes?

Many thanks in advance for any help,

Mark Ward.
Last edited by Mark Ward; 09-13-2004 at 04:43 PM..
 
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ntfscmp

NTFSCMP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							NTFSCMP(8)

NAME

       ntfscmp - compare two NTFS filesystems and tell the differences

SYNOPSIS

       ntfscmp [OPTIONS] DEVICE1 DEVICE2

DESCRIPTION

       The  ntfscmp  program makes a comparison between two NTFS filesystems from all aspects and reports all variances it finds.  The filesystems
       can be on block devices or images files. Ntfscmp can be used for volume verification however its primary purpose was  to  be  an  efficient
       development tool, used to quickly locate, identify and check the correctness of the metadata changes made to NTFS.

       If  one is interested only in the NTFS metadata changes then it could be useful to compare the metadata images created by using the --meta-
       data option of ntfsclone(8) to eliminate the usually uninteresting timestamp changes.

       The terse output of ntfscmp is intentional because the provided information is enough in each case to determine the exact differences. This
       can be achieved, for instance, if one compares the verbose outputs of ntfsinfo(8) for each reported inodes by the diff(1) utility.

OPTIONS

       Below is a summary of the options that ntfscmp accepts.

       -P, --no-progress-bar
	      Don't show progress bars.

       -v, --verbose
	      More informational output.

       -h, --help
	      Display help and exit.

EXIT CODES

       The exit code is 0 on success, non-zero otherwise.

KNOWN ISSUES

       No problem is known. If you would find otherwise then please send your report to the development team: linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net

AUTHOR

       ntfscmp was written by Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka@sienet.hu).

AVAILABILITY

       ntfscmp is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
       http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37

       The manual pages are available online at:
       http://man.linux-ntfs.org/

SEE ALSO

       ntfsinfo(8), ntfscat(8), diff(1), ntfsclone(8), ntfsprogs(8)

ntfsprogs 1.13.1						    April 2006								NTFSCMP(8)