Re: [Nolug] music collection

Charles, I'm lost with your reply. How about this idea: format all drives as
FAT. (or ext4, etc).
The files (mp3) are coming from a Windows computer connected to Internet. I
copy the files from that computer to the Ubuntu. I'm afraid if those files have
a virus, the virus would be on the Ubuntu computer.

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From: Charles Paul <charles.paul@gmail.com>
To: nolug@nolug.org
Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 9:58:09 AM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] music collection

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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