Re: [SLUG] File deletion problem.

[Sridhar Dhanapalan <sridhar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 23 April 2006 15:01, Matthew Hannigan <mlh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:19:15PM +1000, Charles Myers wrote:
> > afaik, NTFS mounts as read only. You can only format the things.. (I
> > would love to be proven wrong on this :( as I have a couple ntfs drives
> > that need some work....)
>
> Yeah.  You can use the captive ntfs driver (i.e. windows ntfs
> drivr under linux), but then you would need to have a windows
> license .. so why not just use windows in the first place to
> delete it.

Captive is *slow* to write. On my system, it filled up my /var with error 
logs.

From my understanding, the Linux NTFS driver can only write to files safely if 
their size does not change. Otherwise, you risk file corruption.

If you frequently share files between Linux and Windows, you're better off 
using a VFAT partition. Other options include having a separate server 
running Samba or accessing ext2 filesystems from Windows using a tool like 
explore2fs.

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