You did your tests with the two years old, obsolote, not production quality ntfsmount.
Stable read/write NTFS support is provided by a completely different NTFS driver, called NTFS-3G and it's built-in into Ubuntu 7.10. The correct command to use the default Ubuntu NTFS driver is mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1/ or ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1/ or probably only mount /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1/ -- Cannot copy all files between NTFS disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/190667 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs