dual boot with Fedora and NTFS on windows: is it safe ?

[Ian Malone]

On 12/09/06, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> John Que wrote:
> > When installing dual boot with FAT /FAT32 on the Windows partition, it
> > is safe to boot to linux, mount the windows partition (as vfat) , than
> > create files on the Windows partition, delete files on the linux
> > partition, etc.
>
> I gave up trying to access NTFS from Linux a couple of years ago,
> when I found that even *read* access was unreliable (the propaganda
> from the rabid Linux supporters notwithstanding). I found that file
> names were unreliable, and I do not mean the standard issue of
> NTFS being case preserving, but case ignoring. I mean like control
> characters getting stuck into file names. Since the file names
> were not reliable, I didn't check further into data integrity.
>

It appears to have progressed since then, and user space tools are
available which makes testing easier.  Still going to be waiting a
while before I ditch my FAT partitions though.

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imalone