Quote Originally Posted by dvryknopper
I have a question for Harry Kuhman regaurding this thread. You know how you often mention writing to NTFS from linux creates a real risk of of corrupting the NTFS partition, would that risk still be a worry using the method eco2geek described, since it uses a Windows application to set things up, ....
I saw the post but have never done this. It still seems extremely dangerous to me. After all, unionfs is a RAM based file system that merges in a disk (or CD or DVD) based file system and presents the combination as if it was one file system. I don't see how this in any way gets us past the effort that Microsoft seems to be putting into making sure that NTFS can't be written to safely by Linux. And lets not miss the important line in eco2geek's post:
Quote Originally Posted by eco2geek
... Knoppix will give you several dire warnings;....
That said, eco2geek is pretty knowledgable. But it is not clear to me though from his post just how much he has used this. Personally, my only NTFS partition is too important to me to risk this. I backed up that partition long ago and then shrunk it and put a FAT partition in the recovered space that both Knoppix and XP can use to share files and Knoppix has a safe place to write any files. So I'll not likely ever use it. If you decide to I urge you to always have very good backups.