Windows Succeeds where Linux fails. 3693

Mike Cox

Well, glad you got them back, anyway. I've often had to resort to my commercial software stack for recovery operations, I'll admit there's some situations where Linux becomes unstuck. That's where you have to look around for a specified toolbox distro, designed for such operations, and which will have the packages you need.

The problem with that is, Microsoft have only specified just enough of the NTFS filesystem that the Linux kernel is able toreadit. Not that it's a very stable FS to begin with, youcanwrite to NTFS using Captive NTFS to make it writable, but as they say in that program's documentation, and I reiterate: you use NTFS under Linux entirely at your own risk. And don't go crying to anybody if-when your NTFS parbreastion goes bye bye or is rendered unreadable by Win32 after a write operation under Linux. Write operations to NTFS under Linux area hack-, just remember that; Linux just isn't designed for guesswork, and that's exactly what an NTFS write is asking the kernel to do.

Yeah, once again, Microsoft's proprietery, closed filesystem almost cost you your holiday snaps. When will people learn, that if you're using local space to store documents, to parbreastion in FAT32!?

I'll bless 'em - I'll hold their heads underwater until they come round to my way of thinking!

You're very welcome.

-- Cheers,

Jim

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