[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

George Katsitadze linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 6 Aug 2006 20:30:48 +0300


On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:49:01PM -0400, gervin23 wrote:
> >You need to be careful that you actually unmount the volumes, both from
> >Linux and from Windows, when switching between environments. If you just
> >hibernate on one side or the other the OS which hibernated will be
> >unaware of any changes made by the other OS, and will wake up assuming
> >an unchanged filesystem. The easiest way to do this is simply to shut
> >down rather than hibernate (suspend-to-disk), but you can also create a
> >shell script to unmount the volumes prior to hibernation.
> 
> i've never used suspend-to-disk but that's certainly worth remembering. 
> in my case, i had fstab do all the work so i wasn't doing anything 
> outside normal procedure.

New beta of ntfs-3g is out.

-  large file I/O performance fix
-  keep better consistency if no unmount
-  fix sparse swap file
-  show the mounted device names instead of /dev/fuse
-  KNOWN ISSUES update in the README file

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=29233640&forum_id=2697