Re: [Hampshire] Help needed

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Author: Chris Dennis
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Help needed
James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> On 09/03/07, John Wesley <bluemonki@???> wrote:
>>> I've just discovered NTFS-3G[2], but I've never used either before
>>> myself.
>>>
>>>    Hugo.

>>>
>>> [2] http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
>>
>> I use the 3g driver a bit - seems to work fine and it is a stable release :)
>>
>> jonh
>>
>
> If you do write anything to a ntfs partition, make sure you use the
> linux command to ensure that windows runs chkdsk on next reboot,
> otherwise you might get problems appearing later.
>


I recently copied 80GB of customer's data from ext3 to ntfs using the
Knoppix implementation of ntfs-3g with no problems at all, so it seems
to be sound.

cheers

Chris
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Chris Dennis                                  cgdennis@???
Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK