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Jimi

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From: Brooklyn, NY

Registered: 2009-09-25

Posts: 125

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NTFS-3G Corruption

I have two harddrives. One has all of my OSs installed on it. Another has all of my media. I use NTFS on the media harddrive so that I can use it for both Arch Linux (and eventually other distros) and Windows 7 (when I want to play games). I'm using the latest fuse/NTFS-3G package etc...

Frequently when I boot into Windows, I'm prompted by a CHKDSK that runs and finds corrupted files and deletes them. I'm not sure if Arch will find anything corrupt if I use ntfsfix. That's on my TODO list. Originally, I had thought it was because of my overclock, but I dropped it back to normal and didn't make any difference.

Anybody else suffer from issues like this?

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jmad980

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From: Califonia

Registered: 2010-03-11

Posts: 54

Re: NTFS-3G Corruption

I think  I used to have problems as such (which I attributed to NTFS-3G) back when I dual-booted. I don't trust Windows with my Linux file systems and the other way around.

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whitetimer

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 207

Re: NTFS-3G Corruption

I dual-boot windows 7 & Arch and use ntfs-3g without any problems at all ........

lolilolicon

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Registered: 2009-03-05

Posts: 1,722

Re: NTFS-3G Corruption

I had this problem once, and I knew the reason Windows complained was some file names it cannot accept. I think these

~:\/"?*<>|

are illegal characters for Windows file names, of which only / is not allowed in Linux.
I had two files with ? in their names and Windows yelled "Oh, crap, corruption!" and wanted to "fix" it (by deleting them).

This is just my experience. But your problem may be something else.

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graysky

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Registered: 2008-12-01

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Re: NTFS-3G Corruption

I dual-boot windows 7 & Arch and use ntfs-3g without any problems at all ........

+1.  Been doing this for years with no problems.

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shemz

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Registered: 2010-04-23

Posts: 135

Re: NTFS-3G Corruption

I had the same problem when I was dual booting win7 and arch. This should help.