I certainly wouldn't try writing to NTFS filesystem on any system other then
winnt especially in production.
I don't think it's actually possible to
shrink NTFS partition in a "Microsoft supported way" only "extend" it with
diskpart.
S.
----- Original Message ----
From: Darren Spruell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Misc OpenBSD
<misc@openbsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2007 1:47:31 PM
Subject: Re:
filesystems?
On 9/6/07, Jona Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep
2007 07:11:47 -0700
> "J.C. Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Jona Joachim wrote:
> > > On Mon, 3 Sep 2007
18:17:44 +0200
> > >
> > > "Martin SchrC6der" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> 2007/9/3, The One <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > > FAT32.
> > > >
> > > > And everyone can be compiled to read NTFS; Linux can even write to
> >
> > it.
> > >
> > > FreeBSD can also write NTFS using the ntfs-3g driver
together with
> > > fusefs.
> > >
> > >
> > > Jona
> >
> > Actually, this is
tenative at best. Though some have had success both
> > reading from and
writing to various NTFS versions, it's not really a
> > safe thing to do. It's
still an undocumented file system, and many
> > typical operations fail
disastrously. This week I wasted two
> > different XP installations by
attempting to resize the NTFS partition
> > (shrink) with two different open
source tools (PartitionLogic and
> > GParted).
>
> I never really used it, I
think I just tested it once.
> On their site they say: "The driver is in
STABLE status since February
> 2007, after twelve years of development" so I
thought it was ok.
> I had some terrible crashes with sshfs on FreeBSD. I
think the FreeBSD
> fuse kernel module is a bit flaky. I never tried it on
Linux.
How stable a driver is doesn't indicate the actual level of success
writing {safely,properly,sanely} to a problematic filesystem.like
NTFS. It may
successfully corrupt data without crashing or throwing
errors at all.
DS
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