Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted

From	Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted
Date	2020-11-26 03:20 +0100
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> Microsoft has a bad habit of changing things under the hood without
> bumping the version number. They could very well have changed NTFS
> enough to bollix Linux NTFS libraries and not bothered to tell anyone.

Except that `ntfs-3g` can read and write NTFS and hasn't seen the need
for updates to follow those hypothetical changes on MS's side.  So if
there has been updates, they've been subtle and discreet enough not to
require significant changes on "our" side.  In constrast an `ext2`
filesystem driver for Windows would have trouble reading (and even more
so, writing) some `ext4` filesystems.


        Stefan

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Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2020-11-25 18:40 +0100
  Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2020-11-25 21:00 +0100
    Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2020-11-25 21:20 +0100
      Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-25 21:50 +0100
        Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2020-11-25 22:20 +0100
          Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2020-11-25 22:30 +0100
            Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2020-11-25 22:50 +0100
              Re: NTFS partitions can't be mounted Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2020-11-26 03:20 +0100

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