On 13 November 2011 18:40, Avi Greenbury <[email protected]> wrote: > > alan c wrote: > > > In hindsight the biggest problem I had (emotionally that is) was > > recognising that even when there was a clear motivation for Ubuntu, > > there were very strong immediate influences indeed against (ubuntu) on > > grounds of an 'NTFS Drivers' myth. I can guess that he had simply not > > looked at SMART data, only the file system. I sense a whiff of > > prejudice. But then I think the relative seems to work a lot with > > Windows. > > It's not a myth. NTFS support in Linux is reverse-engineered, and > fsck.ntfs is by most accounts not as good at checking or fixing NTFS as > the checkdisk utility in Windows. > > I have never used fsck.ntfs, but I have never had any problems reading and writing to ntfs and have even shrunk ntfs partitions in gparted. Never tried tho create one, though.
There was a time when ntfs support was beta, and not guaranteed (back around 2007/8), and I used a small FAT32 partition to transfer between Windows and Ubuntu, but those times are now long gone. Tony
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