For reading only, I thing regular ntfs is enough. Though I think all modern
distros come with the proper write capability. At Least I have had no need
to even think about it for years.
I have not used ubuntu, but currently use derivative Linux Mint, and any
additional drives you have, or plug in are detected just fine, and also
mounted automatically when access is needed. (i.e click the drive icon)
P
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Charles Paul <charles.paul@gmail.com>wrote:
> Make sure that the ntfs3-g module is used for read-write access to
> that partition. The older ntfs modules had a tendency to put files
> into black holes when write access is enabled.
>
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:55 AM, Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>
> wrote:
> > Pretty much any linux distro these days can read ntfs.
> > If your chosen one can not, quickly grab parted magic
> > (http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=partedmagic), run it from
> CD
> > and do whatever you like with all your files.
> > If you have more than 256MB of memory, it runs without CD, so you have
> also
> > a CD drive/burner available to you.
> > Congratulations for dumping WinBlows! (It is a pain I used to.....)
> > P
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Randy Wild <randywild1@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a large music collection on a Windows computer (NTFS format) that
> >> I'm moving to Ubuntu 10.04. The drives are external USB drives. Should
> I
> >> format them something different or can I keep them NTFS format?
> >> Also, in Ubuntu, is there a way to check drives to see if any data is
> >> corrupt before I do backups?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
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