[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

[Matt Graham]

On Wednesday 02 August 2006 08:03, after a long battle with technology, 
Timothy Murphy wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 09:41, Adrian Bastholm wrote:
> > Or You could ty converting the NTFS drive to ext3 with
> > PartitionMagic ...

Wait, what?  How would that work?  Not that I would trust PQMagic to do 
anything like this after their terrible record with Linux filesystems, 
mind you.

> Is there actually any way of converting an NTFS partition
> to Windows VFAT?

Microsoft says "no".  If anything on the NTFS partition used secondary 
file streams, that data would get lost when you converted the partition 
to FAT32.  OK, few things use that part of NTFS's capabilities, but you 
never know.  The approach of copying everything from the NTFS partition 
to somewhere else using SMB, then mkfs'ing the partition, then copying 
everything back would probably work, assuming there aren't any 
fixed-sector-position files like the bootloader or the swap file on the 
partition.  It'd just be annoying.

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