Re: (Thank you Tom) Re: David --- Re: WRITING to NTFS drives
On Wed, 2019-03-13 at 21:57 +0100, Linux-Fan wrote:
> > On 3/13/19 3:43 PM, Thomas D Dial wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > 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.
>
Thank you for the explanation, and reference, which makes sense and
persuades me to make sure fast startup/quick boot is disabled on the
small number of Windows things on my network. The floundering fix I
mentioned in an earlier post may well have been made necessary by this
"feature." Most of the systems here are on all the time, and I rarely am
in such a hurry that a minute or so to boot from cold would be a
problem.
Tom
> 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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