[SOLVED]NTFS write supported?

Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:16 pm Post subject: [SOLVED]NTFS write supported?

In the kernel there is an option available to write to ntfs filesystem. Does this mean I can mount an rw an ntfs filesystem? Just like I do with fat32? Or are there problems to be expected?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:24 pm Post subject:

HXC,

Kernel ntfs write is safe but very limited. You can only change the contents of existing files without changing the file size.
There is a package called captive, which is a wrapper for the Windows ntfs filesystem software, so you get full windows functions but its been unmaintained for a while now. You can expect bit rot to set in.

Don't try either of them on a filesystem thats not expendable.
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Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the quick and clear answer! I have one question left; what would you advice me to use as filesystem? I have a large hardisk (250GB) divided into three partitions. I would like to use a fast filesystem ( I am using fat32 now) with the possibility to easily recover files. As far as I know none of linux filesystems (reiserfs, ext and xfs) offer the possibilty to easily recover files (in comparision to ntfs, fat32). As i have found out the hard way with my reiserfs parttion :cry:

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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

HXC,

No journalled filesystem makes it easy to recover files and Linux deliberately does not have an undelete function.
You would be able to undelete any users files and that would be a security issue.

It you want to recover files you deleted accidently, ext2 is better than ext3 but a 250Gb filesystem will take hours (days ?) to fsck after a power loss.

You should back up your important data
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clintpatty · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 2:31 am Post subject:

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Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:20 pm Post subject:

After reading lots of information I finally decided to use ext3.This thread did em decide to use ext3:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305871-highlight-ext2+tune2fs.html
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pilo · Posted: Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:27 pm Post subject:

Actually, there is a FUSE-module to enable more write support with NTFS.

See http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount
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Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Mon Jun 19, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: Update

Xandros 4 will support ntfs read-write:

dballanc · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2003 Posts: 6

I don't know if it would help you, but on my dual boot machine I've had a lot of luck using a shared ext3 partition for data. The driver for XP at www.fs-driver.org has worked well so far. It doesn't have permissions support, but it's good enough for my needs. .

Kasumi_Ninja · Posted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 7:31 pm Post subject:

pilo · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:33 am Post subject:

Just for variety: EXT2IFS

Has worked pretty good for me, but I recall some trouble when I tried it with XP SP2.
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rada · Posted: Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:54 pm Post subject:

EXT2IFS works well for me as well but everytime I mount it in Windows then boot back into Gentoo a fsck is done which takes upwards of 10mins on my ~200GB partition. Is there any way around this?