On 3/13/19 3:43 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote:
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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.
[...] The locked state might be from a feature introduced in Windows 8: Windows does not shut down by default but rather goes into suspend-to-disk. If the data is accessed from another OS while Windows is suspended, Windows' and the other OS' view on the data may be inconsistent and cause file system corruption. https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance- winpc/win10-fast-start-up-quick-boot-warning-suggestion/5fec376c- d876-4033-85f6-32c2d2cb5e03 So for external drives there should not be an issue as long as they are unmounted/disconnected properly prior to a Windows shutdown or alternatively one can disable "Fast Startup" completely to avoid its risks. HTH Linux-Fan OT: Last time I e-mailed the list, my mail's signature could not be verified successfuly in (at least not in my e-mail client)... I am not sure how to debug this so it might again be signed incorrectly? :(
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