On 12/09/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
John Que wrote: > When installing dual boot with FAT /FAT32 on the Windows partition, it > is safe to boot to linux, mount the windows partition (as vfat) , than > create files on the Windows partition, delete files on the linux > partition, etc. I gave up trying to access NTFS from Linux a couple of years ago, when I found that even *read* access was unreliable (the propaganda from the rabid Linux supporters notwithstanding). I found that file names were unreliable, and I do not mean the standard issue of NTFS being case preserving, but case ignoring. I mean like control characters getting stuck into file names. Since the file names were not reliable, I didn't check further into data integrity.
It appears to have progressed since then, and user space tools are available which makes testing easier. Still going to be waiting a while before I ditch my FAT partitions though. -- imalone
