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Tom --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

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On 3/11/19 3:35 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote:
> On Mon, 2019-03-11 at 14:13 -0400, deb wrote:
>> I saw this question come up
>>
>> and it set off bells.
>>
>>
>> Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was.
>>
>> That it was not yet supported (?) .
>>
>>
>>
>> *MY* Assumptions:
>>
>>    * MIXED NETWORK, with Win, Mac, Linux (EXT4 formatted).
>>
>>    * many portable 1-5TB drives making the rounds, formatted with NTFS.
>>
>>    * data loss is unacceptable [to the highest degree that is
>> possible].
>>
>>
>>
>> I know that I can read (and verify) files just fine from NTFS on
>> Debian 9.8
>>
>> but [if you have direct experience with this]
>>
>> is writing to these drives from debian actually safe?
>>
>>
>> [if you have direct experience with this]
>>
>> what process/tool(s) do you use to validate the writes?
>>
> One data point, clearly in need of additional support (or refutation).
>
> I will lay claim to having, in a small number of cases, written to NTFS
> file systems using recent (jessie, stretch, buster) Debian versions.
>
> Validation was that the files subsequently were readable, modifiable,
> and rewritable by Windows 10 or Windows 7 applications. Some of them
> later were readable, modifiable, and rewritable on the originating Linux
> system.
>
> This is a somewhat weak claim, since it involved only a small (but
> double digit) number of files, and only a few applications (mostly
> OpenOffice or LibreOffice Calc and MS-Office Excel).
>
> On one occasion I managed, largely by trial and error, to repair an NTFS
> file system using tools available on Debian (buster, I think, but maybe
> stretch).
>
> Tom Dial
>

Tom

Thank you!

It's good to hear it has worked, even in small samples.


I'm faced with people running everywhere with these things, and dozens 
of drives.


[potential] shudder.

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WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-11 19:20 +0100
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-03-11 19:50 +0100
    Joe - Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-11 20:10 +0100
      Re: Joe - Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-03-11 21:00 +0100
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-03-11 20:50 +0100
    Alexander -- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-13 00:40 +0100
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-03-11 21:00 +0100
    Tom --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-13 00:50 +0100
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-03-13 03:00 +0100
    David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-13 16:20 +0100
      Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-03-13 21:10 +0100
        (Thank you Tom) Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org> - 2019-03-13 21:30 +0100
          Re: (Thank you Tom) Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2019-03-13 22:00 +0100
            Re: (Thank you Tom) Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-03-14 03:20 +0100
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-28 08:50 +0200
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 07:30 +0200
    Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 08:30 +0200
      Re: WRITING to NTFS drives mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 09:40 +0200
        Re: WRITING to NTFS drives deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 12:20 +0200
          Re: WRITING to NTFS drives mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-05-29 18:40 +0200
  Re: WRITING to NTFS drives songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2019-05-29 17:40 +0200
    Re: WRITING to NTFS drives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2019-05-31 09:00 +0200

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