Re: [Sheflug] Apologies: Writing to NTFS

[Jon Masters <jonathan [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Alex Hudson wrote:

| Actually, not entirely true. If you can make the file contiguous on
| disk, and you could work out it's extents, you could copy it using
| Windows dd.

Except this is likely not possible. The structure of an NTFS filesystem
typically precludes this being possible in the same way as with ext2.

| It would mean your disk would nuke the journal every time
| you restart, but hey.

Of course that is not so much of a problem because it is only for
occasional access and you are likely not modifying the ext2.

Jon.
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