[ubuntu-uk] Bug #1 and onwards....

[Tony Pursell]

On 13 November 2011 18:40, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> 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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