On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 01:30:59PM +0000, Bhasker C V wrote: > Nick Douma wrote:
[snip] > >>Using NTFS on linux and windows is cool. I have consistently seen that > >>when there are large number of files, undoubtably, > >>ntfs volume goes corrupt and chkdsk simply removes files and creates > >>data loss. I do not have any clue on when the FS goes > >>corrupt (either when writing using linux or when using in windows - Used > >>ntfs (kernel), ntfs-3g ... all in vain). > > > >I have never had a corrupted NTFS partition from using it with ntfs-3g. > >I've been using the setup I described above for years now, and the NTFS > >partitions are used intensively on both Windows and Linux as download > >partitions (usenet, torrents, etc). > I think this is the near best solution. This is the 3rd time I am > trying to capture all data (around 10,000 files) > from my linux box into the luks ntfs partition. Everything works > fine. There is no file corruption. But it all > starts to cruble the moment you use chkdsk. Chkdsk starts deleting > lots of files and says they are corrupt > and then on the next run it salvages files saying they are orphaned. I have used ntfs (the ntfs-3g package, not the kernel ntfs drivers - there is a difference), and I have never had any problems - that weren't media related - faulty sector.... are you sure your use the fuse package, and doing a proper umount ? [snip] > On total, I lose a lot of files.
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