Ntfs partition being corrupted

[toddbailey]

Got a serious problem with F14 x64, writting to a drive is corrupting the file system.

I need to be able to r/w to a portable drive and exchange data between Win and Linux machines.

First the hardware a sata drive in a sata to usb box. Pretty basic setup a 120 gb notebook drive.

Worked fine on the win side but when I copy files from linux box to drive, the ntfs file system comes corrupted. This has happend on several occassions

I connect drive to linux box, it gets mounted, I copy the files I need in either direction, then do a safe remove.

When I connect the drive to a win machine it reports it can't read the drive and needs to be formatted, chkdsk on a win box doesn't work. If I reconnect to drive to another linux, it states chkdsk need to be run and rebooted twice.

What am I doing wrong or is ntfs still not well supported (usage is risky?) in Fedora?
Should I be using a different Fs and is so any suggestions? I can't recall if fat32 supports drive this large.

Now I'm on the hunt to find tools that do filesystem recovery & reconstruction, any suggestions?

This is a serious problem and need to be resolved or a bug entry made.

Any thoughts?

[kkshethin]

what types of files are you copying from linux. some of the files not liked by anti-virus programs of windows. try to disable anti-virus

[goodfella]

Are you re-configuring the kernel and adding NTFS support, along with NTFS write support?
All pre-built kernels are not configured for NTFS.

[stevea]

Last I read the ntfs-3g works well. And F14 doesn't have the kernel 'ntfs' compiled in.

So I assume you are using ntfs-3g (yes ?).
You might try 'umount' in the file system, but the safe remove should do that.

[toddbailey]

Hi All,

I have a 2.5 sata drive on a box that connects via a USB cable.

I use the drive on a win xp machine with out any drama, but when I connect to a linux machine, I can read or write to the drive but when I reconnect to the win xp machine the os reports the fs is corrupted. I use safe remove before I disconnect the drive from the linux machine so I'm at my witts end why this is happening.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do to provide easy portable drive exchange between the os's with out corrupting the filesystem

[toddbailey]

Yes I'm using ntfs 3g, and I've tried umount with the same results

I'm not running any AV software on the win boxes.

I'm copying a mix of file types, include text files, doc, files, music, spreadsheets etc...

When I plug in the drive on the win box, I get a dialog stating D:\ is not accessible,

the file or directory is corrupted and unreadable.....


The drive is a 2.5 sata drive on a box that connects via a USB cable.

I use the drive on a win xp machine with out any drama, but when I connect to a linux machine, I can read or write to the drive but when I reconnect to the win xp machine the os reports the fs is corrupted. I use safe remove before I disconnect the drive from the linux machine so I'm at my witts end why this is happening.

What am I doing wrong or what can I do to provide easy portable drive exchange between the os's with out corrupting the filesystem

[Dan]

Threads merged. One to a customer at a time, please.

[toddbailey]

sorry about that, I wasn't sure if I posted my issue here or else where

[Dan]

No problem. Lost sheep found and herded. <....>