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Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

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On 11.03.2019 23:13, deb wrote:
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> I saw this question come up
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> and it set off bells.
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> Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was.
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> That it was not yet supported (?) .
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> *MY* Assumptions:
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>  * MIXED NETWORK, with Win, Mac, Linux (EXT4 formatted).
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>  * many portable 1-5TB drives making the rounds, formatted with NTFS.
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>  * data loss is unacceptable [to the highest degree that is possible].
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> I know that I can read (and verify) files just fine from NTFS on
> Debian 9.8
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> but [if you have direct experience with this]
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> is writing to these drives from debian actually safe?
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Short answer: Yes, it is safe.
Long answer: Yes, but it depends, because NTFS is not just a bunch of
files, it has hidden metadata sections, journal, substream files,
junctions, windows-style ACLs and permissions, file compression, disk
quotas, file audit, probably more (hidden) features.
You've probably read my answer to that previous question about NTFS, so
I just want to add to that. Writing data\files to NTFS is fine as long
as you take into account that some of the features could be not fully
supported.
So you should be careful with writing\deleting\moving files on a system
partition (with installed windows os), but if you use NTFS with Portable
USB Storage devices it should be fine, as long as you(your users) don't
unplug USB connector as soon as progress bar of file transfer process
has reached 100%.
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> [if you have direct experience with this]
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> what process/tool(s) do you use to validate the writes?
Take into account that USB storage devices are quick to send data into
memory buffer, but much slower to actually write data to drive. So
"sync" command is useful to ensure data is fully written, before you
send command to unmount\eject the device and physically disconnect it
from USB port, otherwise data loss or filesystem corruption will occur.
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> What are other places to ask this?
You can go to homepage of "ntfs-3g" driver [1] and its support forums. [2]

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> Thank you!
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[1] https://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-advanced/
[2] https://forum.tuxera.com/


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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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