Re: [SLUG] Writing to NTFS

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Jul 05 2004 - 00:25:12 EDT


On Sun, 4 Jul 2004, themadtux wrote:

> Guys .. is it safe to give write access to an NTFS partition in fstab? Do I
> have to worry about any corruption of the partition or files?

Writing to NTFS under kernel 2.4 is very dangerous; but the NTFS code has
been completely rewritten in 2.6, and it's safe (if slow) there. Check
here: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2

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