[aklug] Re: NTFS Mounting on Windows

Ugh... the only reason I am using NTFS is because it can be shared
between Linux and Windows...

On 04/01/2016 09:46 AM, Royce Williams wrote:
> Could be antivirus or some other "gimme silent and total access to any
> new drives for a while" sort of thing.
>
> Also, semi-unrelated: be very wary of sharing NTFS disks between Linux
> and Windows. Specifically, strict Windows NTFS forbids characters in
> filenames that the default Linux implementation does not. Colons are a
> big one. Unless you specify the "windows_names" flag in your Linux
> mount, it will happily let you create Windows-incompatible filenames
>
> Here's the kicker. If you then take that drive and plug it into a
> Windows system, if a filesystem check is triggered, it will
> *immediately* start *deleting* all "invalid" filenames without
> warning. Yeah.
>
> Guess who found this out the hard way. :/
>
> http://consortiumlibrary.org/lists/aklug/archive/2013-01/0038.html
>
> Royce
>
> On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Christopher Howard
> <christopher@alaskasi.com <mailto:christopher@alaskasi.com>> wrote:
>
> Does Windows do any kind of file system checks or block sorting
> automatically on NTFS volumes when you first plug them in (i.e.,
> through a USB connection)? I had this situation where I plugged a
> drive into a Windows box, then I tried to eject it, but the
> ejection process stalled (I could select eject but nothing would
> happen). After 10 minutes of no-response, I gave up and just
> unplugged the drive, which I thought would be safe because I had
> not actually done any writes as far as I knew. THEN the Windows
> box finally gave me an error saying not to unplug the device
> because ejection is in progress, and afterwards the files on the
> drive were corrupted — still there, but full of IO errors.
>
> Obvious lesson is don't unplug anything until Windows has given
> the okay (or better, never attach anything to a Windows box), but
> I am also trying to understand what might have happened on the
> technical level to corrupt the data.
>
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