On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 4:04 AM Jean-Pierre André <jean-pierre.an...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: > > I saw that ntfs-3g doesn't support old Windows (before ~2008) > > partitions. > > Where did you get this from ? ntfs-3g is supposed to > support all ntfs partitions since NT4.
Missed replying to this. I was looking if linux could trim an ntfs volume, and ran across this (Again, I'm on Arch, just ran across this Ubuntu question): https://askubuntu.com/questions/435825/can-ubuntu-trim-another-ntfs-partition There, Peter Cordes noted on May 4, 2015, that ntfs-3g got fstrim in this patch: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01065.html That link's patch coversheet is here: https://www.mail-archive.com/ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net/msg01066.html Where Richard W.M. Jones includes: "... It also ensures that the partition is aligned to the discard block size. In older Windows (before ~2008) partitions were aligned to 512 bytes. The discard block size is usually 4K or larger. Therefore it's (nearly) impossible to discard correctly on these partitions. This patch rejects these cases." I don't know if that rejection on older Windows partitions is still in the code, since that comment was from Jul 31, 2014. In case it still is, I don't think that would be causing this. _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
