[wellylug] Screwed up laptop :(

[postie]

Volker Kuhlmann wrote:

>[can you guys learn to quote?]
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>>Why do you think that the file system had anything to do with it? I'm 
>>interested.
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>Writing to an ntfs filesystem with Linux has been reported as being
>highly unstable in the past, i.e. you *will* fsck it. If you want to be
>safe, make sure you mount read-only. I've seen some dodgy things
>recently where the sizes reported by ls and du for some subdirectory
>tree didn't match up by a long shot. As it was read-only it didn't
>matter.
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>Volker
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Yes, agreed, but this was the install. and I would never recommend 
anyone writing to
any version of NTFS from Linux.

Cheers,

Cliff