Re: [Nolug] music collection

I'm going with ext4 for right now for the file system. thanks.

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From: B. Estrade <estrabd@gmail.com>
To: nolug@nolug.org
Sent: Tue, February 15, 2011 10:04:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] music collection

& I was just going to say that I thought write access to NTFS was
flaky at best. B

On 2/15/11, 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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