[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

[gervin23]

i'd be careful about using ntfs-3g. for me, everything seemed fine while 
happily reading/writing files to my ntfs partition but after rebooting 
into windows things got weird. the files ended up corrupted in both 
windows and linux with unknown filesizes. i was unable to remove the 
files in linux so the only way i found that worked was to defrag offline 
using perfectdisk (although 'chkdsk' might have worked as well). i'd 
like to hear what other have experienced in this regard...

andy

George Katsitadze wrote:
> thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com wrote:
> 
>> I have ubuntu 6.06 on my Thinkpad R31.   I'd like to hook up an
>> external laptop hard drive via a  USB 2.0 port on a PC Card.   The
>> drive's formatted in NTFS and already has data, so I can't change the
>> filesystem without compromising its contents.
>>
>> How can I read/write to an NTFS disk under Linux?  What little I've
>> read so far leads me to believe there aren't too many candidates that
>> are both stable and reliable.   Captive may come close.
>>
>> Any thing else I can try?
>>
>> Thanks for reading.
> 
> 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.
> 
> George