[Discuss] accessing NTFS partition

[Ken Murray]

On Jan 22, 2008 7:29 AM, Lloyd Budd <foolswisdom at gmail.com> wrote:

> I haven't had to play with this yet, but this is one of the things
> that I was happy to hear was in the recent Ubuntu. As it isn't highly
> publicized I suspect that people aren't highly confident that it is
> stable and robust.

I recently bought a 2GB USB flash drive and wanted to be able to share
files with Windows users so I decided to do an experiment.  I know I
could have just left it with the preexisting FAT32 filesystem, but why
not play a bit?

I'm running Fedora 7 with the latest ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs packages so
I used Linux to partition and format the drive as an NTFS filesystem
without difficulty.  I can read and write to the drive in Linux just
fine.  When I plug the drive into my girlfriend's laptop running
Vista, she can read and write to it just fine too.

Thus far I have been using the drive to copy movies and tv episodes
back and forth between Vista and Linux systems with no difficulty
whatsoever.

The ntfsprogs package has some other nifty utilities for fixing and
cloning NTFS filesystems as well.  I used ntfsclone to dump an NTFS
filesystem to an image, then mounted it locally via loopback without
problems as well.  IMO, Linux NTFS support has come a long way and can
prove useful when trying to recover data from customer's hard drives
when Windows won't read them correctly.


-- 
Ken

echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlb xq |dc