rikona wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 12:54:59 PM, ET wrote:
E> rikona wrote:
On Monday, January 1, 2007, 11:44:00 AM, Miark wrote:
M> On Sat, 30 Dec 2006 07:40:23 -0800, rikona wrote:
M> Writing to NTFS is fine with Knoppix (I do it routinely)
...It is a matter of reliability, as I understand it. Several
linuxes will write ntfs, but occasionally might trash the file
system beyond repair. Is Knoppix known to be 'bullet-proof' on ntfs
writes?
M> Pretty much. It (whatever "it" is) will only do what is reliable,
M> so if you try to write or delete a file and it cannot be done
M> safely, then it just doesn't do it. It's happened to me only a
M> couple times.
Very nice. Can you do massive writes reliably, like copying the
contents [say 100,000 files/dirs] of a 100 Gig partition?
Is there any documentation on this, showing what can and can't be
done? Or any fairly rigorous testing? I'm VERY interested in a linux
that is bullet-proof with ntfs writes - particularly one that can be
run from CD/DVD.
E> there are commercial products to do this,
Last I checked they were fairly expensive...
E> or you can do it over the network.
That, I presume, uses the M$ code at the other end. I do that kind of
thing now, unless you're referring to something else.
E> "Ultimate boot disk" for gets around this by using the NTFS lic on
E> the windows partition.
Are you saying UBD uses the code on the Win disk? The case I am
interested in has ntfs partitions but Win is not on them - just data
files.
Are you suggesting this is just a licensing issue, or is there a tech
part?
E> there is more than one (more than 3) versions of NTFS...
I can believe M$ comes out with a new 'upgrade' every time the linux
folks are able to write reliably. :-((
you might check into making the UBDW, seems to me I remember there are a
few files to copy off the winbox you want to write to...
http://www.ubcd4win.com/faq.htm
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