[mdlug] NTFS-3g

[Michael Rudas]

On 6/21/07, Raymond Ingles wrote:
>
>  So, it's alleged that Linux finally has safe read-write access to NTFS
> filesystems with the "third generation NTFS driver":
>
>  I haven't bothered with this, but it'd be nice if it does, in fact,
> work. Anyone here tried it? Any problems, or just good vibes?

I have used it extensively; it's enabled by default under Knoppix
5.1.1 live CD/DVD-- when I installed the DVD to the hard drive, there
were minor HAL issues, but I fixed those.  I've not experienced
disk-check problems going back-and forth with either my dual-boot
Lin/Win XP setup or live CD/Win XP usage.  It's a bit slower than
writing to vfat or ext3 file systems, since it uses HAL + FUSE as a
transitional layer, but it works just fine-- no errors or lost data in
~5 months heavy use on both internal and USB-connected drives.

In Krusader, NTFS partitions are shown as (fuseblk) and full
read/write access is allowed.

-- Mikey