[Gllug] Formatting FAT32, or writing to NTFS?

[John Winters]

On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 11:40, Tethys wrote:
> 
> >EEEK! Don't use the RW support for NTFS (at least in 2.2 - 2.4 kernels anyway)
> >because it SERIOUSLY hosed the filesystem when I tried to use it a while back 
> >(see thread from April or May or so)
> 
> The real problem is when you try and use it on a W2K NTFS filesystem. If it's
> an NT4 NTFS filesystem, then you'll probably be OK. FWIW, NT4 will corrupt
> a W2K NTFS fielsystem just as badly as Linux...

And NT4 can do a quite spectacular job of destroying an NT4 NTFS filing
system.

John (speaking from extensive personal experience).

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