• superkret@feddit.org
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    19 hours ago

    Do NOT put all of your important stuff on an NTFS partition and let both Windows and Linux write to it.

    The question won’t be if your data gets corrupted, but when.

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      19 hours ago

      Generally linux doesn’t do any writing to NTFS, at least not the way I have it set up.

      Also I know exactly what you are talking about, but the kernel NTFS3 driver has gotten much better.

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        18 hours ago

        But has the Windows NTFS driver gotten better? That’s the main concern, usually. Windows not really respecting Microsoft’s own specification and assuming it’s the only player on your PC.

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          18 hours ago

          You can set linux to write in a “windows compatible” way via a mount option.

          I haven’t had issues with “linux written files in windows” in a long time. Access is fine. But again, it’s only for bulk storage (like media files, database files or temporary transfers): I don’t use it for apps or anything.

          Windows behaves well enough on its own too. Obviously NTFS isn’t ideal, but the driver is stable at least.