On 3/13/19 3:43 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote:
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 11:12 -0400, deb wrote:On 3/12/19 9:50 PM, David Christensen wrote:On 3/11/19 11:13 AM, deb wrote:I saw this question come up and it set off bells. Someone asked what the status of WRITING to NTFS drives was. That it was not yet supported (?) . *MY* Assumptions: * MIXED NETWORK, with Win, Mac, Linux (EXT4 formatted). * many portable 1-5TB drives making the rounds, formatted with NTFS. * data loss is unacceptable [to the highest degree that is possible]. I know that I can read (and verify) files just fine from NTFS on Debian 9.8 but [if you have direct experience with this] is writing to these drives from debian actually safe? [if you have direct experience with this] what process/tool(s) do you use to validate the writes? What are other places to ask this? Thank you!On 3/12/19 4:40 PM, deb wrote:I'm faced with people running everywhere with these things, and dozens of drives.Writing to NTFS file systems using Debian has worked for me for the current and past few releases of Debian Stable. It is not a common use-case for me any more, so I'll refrain from making comments. However, it seems like you have a large sneaker net with many sneakers and even more feet. My experiences with a few sneakers and two feet prompted me to pursue better solutions (Ethernet network, file server, version control server, backups, archives, images, etc.). I am curious why you don't do the same? DavidBrace yourself. They take the drives back and forth *Home*. (As well as back & forth to clients).. There is equal volume pumping around the LAN as well.It appears you have a problem that is more managerial in nature than technical, that the best technical measures can do no more than mitigate. Scary. My employment was in a US DoD agency that was pretty careful about information assurance generally, where such activity was forbidden and punished if found. I do not like to think about having to make it work. I contacted a relative who does this routinely. Windows alternately, I contacted a relative who does this routinely about the initial queston about writing to NTFS file systems from Linux and Windows alternately. Although he does this in a dual boot environment, and with either Ubuntu or Mint, they should be similar enough to Debian and the proposed use to be meaningful. He did not report problems with NTFS as such, but mentioned possible OneDrive sync issues and inability of Linux to write to a Windows drive if it was closed down in a locked state. I knew nothing of such a "locked state" and Google search for it indicated only issues that suggest prior file system corruption that needed chkdsk or SFC (and possibly bootrec, or even Windows refresh or reinstall), so probably not a meaningful barrier. Prior testing would be appropriate, with verification of the 90% or more most common use cases, maybe with help of a relatively knowledgable user or a few of them. Tom Dial
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