[Bug 506545] Re: possible fs crash in "hibernated" windows
Duncan Clough
506545 at bugs.launchpad.net
Tue Jan 24 06:56:49 UTC 2012
I *think* it is this bug that has affected me twice recently. Both
times Windows 7 had put itself into hibernate without me realising
(happened when I left the computer on overnight in Windows). I then
continued to use Linux (and the NTFS partitions without problems). When
I next booted into Windows I noticed strange errors, and some portions
of my hard drive were inaccessible when I was back in Ubuntu. The
Windows disk-checking utility however managed to fix everything and
reported no bad sectors on the hard drive.
The volume that was affected was a separate NTFS volume (i.e. not the
one Windows was installed one), but one that I use regularly from within
Ubuntu (and whenever I'm in Windows).
This forum post might offer a possible root cause:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=200&t=76051
I don't really have the means to test this because my hard drives have
data on them that would be inconvenient to lose, but not critical enough
to back up.
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Title:
possible fs crash in "hibernated" windows
Status in “ntfs-3g” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: ntfs-3g
Ubuntu 9.10, dual-boot with Windows 7.
ntfs-3g 1:2009.4.4-1ubuntu4
When Windows 7 is in hibernate mode, the partition is mounted in rw from Ubuntu, instead of ro, while 'man ntfs-3g' says:
"Unlike in case of read-only mount, the read-write mount is
denied if the NTFS volume is hibernated. One needs either to
resume Windows and shutdown it properly, or use this option
which will remove the Windows hibernation file. Please note,
this means that the saved Windows session will be completely
lost. Use this option for your own responsibility."
So, after the writing to ntfs in that state and waking-up the Windows
back, its filesystem became corrupted.
It seems that ntfs-3g could not determine "hibernate" status in
Windows 7.
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