[Tfug] backup drive

[Jim March]

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:47 PM, John Karns <johnkarns at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/7/09, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> you might consider devoting a chunk of it to NTFS if
>> the remaining portion (likely set up as Ext3) is big enough to do all
>> your Ubuntu backups.
>
> This prompts me to ask
> a somewhat tangential  question I've been steeping for a good while:
> my laptop is Ubuntu Feisty (2.6.16 kernel) / XP dual boot and so far,
> I've been avoiding writing to the NTFS partition out of fear that I
> might end up with a corrupted fs there.  Does anyone have any input on
> the topic?  Thanks,
>
> --
> John

Well the Linux NTFS drivers have been improving of late.  By the time
you get to Hardy it was 100% stable but...Feisty, maybe just a wee bit
risky.

Why not jump up to Hardy at least?

Jim