Hello friends, I am new to this forum but have been using Knoppix for some time.

I am learning to use Knoppix as a rescue/maintenance tool and I really needed the NTFS write capability so I was delighted to see the "transparent" NTFS in 5.01.

1) I have been testing the NTFS write capability for a few days and some of you may be interested in the results (which are pretty good):

- click on icon - mounts NTFS partition smoothly read-only
- right-click, to select change to read/write

- create new directory in NTFS - ok
- copy files to new directory - ok but limit of 7 new files can be copied into each directory. This is a documented limitation - something which the developers are still working on

- open a file on NTFS partition, edit it with editor, save - ok
- copy a mpg file to NTFS partition, play with kaffeine - ok
- delete filesand directories - ok

- introduced test virus sample (eicar.com) onto NTFS partition
- scanned with f-prot - detected and removed

After all the above, any new files on the NTFS partition can be seen under XP with no problems
Chkdsk under XP shows no problems.

2) Just yesterday, I discovered "ntfs-3g" which is a beta improvement of the ntfsmount capability in Knoppix 5.01. ntfs-3g removes the 7-10 file per directory limit. Results:

- ntfs-3g downloaded and installed - ok

- copied a huge directory tree of 5000+ files (some directories with 100+ files) of digital photos to the ntfs partition. Whole thing was about 3GB. - ok

- opens digital files in GIMP, edited and saved - ok


I have created a dedicated NTFS partition for stress-testing, and can take all sorts of risks. So I welcome any suggestions on what kinds of stress-test scenarios you would like me to try.

Best regards.