[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

George Katsitadze linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 17:31:17 +0300


On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 01:06:06PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 10:38, George Katsitadze wrote:
> 
> > Try ntfs-3g (http://lunapark6.com/?p=1710).  I've had it on
> > my desktop for about two weeks already; there are two NTFS
> > partitions mounted using fuse and ntfs-3g.  So far I had no
> > problems, except that once, when trying to save (copy) a
> > large number of small files, the partition suddenly went
> > read-only.
> >
> > It took a reboot and chkdsk and everything worked fine there
> > after. No data loss or anything of the sort.
> 
> It's not really clear from this if you _wrote_ to the NTFS partition?

I was writing to the NTFS partition when the above problem
occurred. And I routinely write to this NTFS partition using
ntfs-3g.

However, I can't vouch for it's adequacy for server/mission
critical tasks, for I have only used it on a desktop for
sharing files with Windows and as temporary storage.