On 22/01/11 09:31, John E. Perry wrote:
Quite so. But you have to know it's happening and how to prevent it, and I didn't (I have only a vague idea of what an inode might be, actually...). And once the deed is done and has bitten you, you have to reformat the partition to get back (does that answer your question, Doug?), and, as I said, that would be very inconvenient. Possible, but inconvenient -- and if ntfs-3g is now safe, as Tejas maintains, unnecessary for me. I can handle one-way transfer until ext2fs and its siblings catch up.
Thanks, all. It's much easier to back up and restore Tana's 2 -- 3G of information than my 50+G.
jp
If you're paranoid about data loss, one solution is to leave the ntfs partition read-only from Linux, and have a small FAT32 partition r/w from both Windows and Linux, since fat is an even older/more stable implementation, it is hopefully even more bug-free. Not that I've had any problems with ntfs-3g though - YMMV. Regards, Tejas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org