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David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives

From deb <deb@rangingthoughts.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives
Date 2019-03-13 16:20 +0100
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On 3/12/19 9:50 PM, David Christensen wrote:
> On 3/11/19 11:13 AM, 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?
>>
>>
>> What are other places to ask this?
>>
>>
>> Thank you!
>
>
> On 3/12/19 4:40 PM, deb wrote:
>> I'm faced with people running everywhere with these things, and 
>> dozens of drives.
>
> Writing to NTFS file systems using Debian has worked for me for the 
> current and past few releases of Debian Stable.  It is not a common 
> use-case for me any more, so I'll refrain from making comments.
>
>
> However, it seems like you have a large sneaker net with many sneakers 
> and even more feet.  My experiences with a few sneakers and two feet 
> prompted me to pursue better solutions (Ethernet network, file server, 
> version control server, backups, archives, images, etc.).  I am 
> curious why you don't do the same?
>
>
> David
>
>

Brace yourself.

They take the drives back and forth *Home*.

(As well as back & forth to clients)..

There is equal volume pumping around the LAN as well.

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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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