[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

[gervin23]

George Katsitadze wrote:
> 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

after a short hiatus, i'm now using ntfs3g-0.1_beta20070803 and am
pleased to see that it's working flawlessly so far. this is absolutely
wonderful news. now i can do all my video/audio work via XP and access
those 4GB+ files from linux.