Comment Re:FAT32 (Score 1) 140
My experience with it says otherwise. I've had various issues with NTFS-3G when reading the hard disk on Windows. They are as follows:
1) For some reason, when a linux app tries to save a file with a question mark ("?"), which is an INVALID character on Windows, NTFS-3G will allow it to continue. You can perfectly read the file on linux (and write back to it), but Windows complains.
2) When using characters that have accents on them (like you see in romance languages - portuguese being my case), copying files back and forth is the same as begging to lose data. I've backed up my
In all of those cases, the partition works perfectly until you run CHKDSK, or write something to it under Windows. That pretty much undermines the main reason behind using NTFS-3G (writing to the same partition on both systems).
All in all, my opinion is either stick to Linux and EXT3 or Windows and NTFS. If you must use both, use different computers and get 'em exchanging data through SMB.
Disclaimer: I haven't researched for fixes (basically because when I found out about the issues it was too late and it didn't matter anymore) or tried to isolate the causes. What I've been using is the NTFS-3G driver supplied with Ubuntu (7.04 onwards).