[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

gervin23 linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 03 Aug 2006 19:49:01 -0400


> 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.