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ntfs-3g question
Hi,
I just wounder why a ntfs partition need that my window xp shut down properly before i can mount it on my new Debian install.
What happen it that when scanning window xp for virus i got a blue screen and window just crash repeatedly , so i tough i could just mount that partition with ntfs-3g, find the virus witch i identify to be in c:/window and delete it, but my ntfs partition would not mount and the boot message said something like (ntfs partition is still in use). Long story short, i finally managed to get a full window xp boot followed by a clean shut down, then my ntfs partition mounted and i was able to delete that virus.
PS. I could mount that partition with ntfs ro option in fstab, but not with ntfs-3g rw until i got a clean xp shutdown.
Just curious. 
Last edited by Davno; 05-09-2009 at 02:14 PM.
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I think the integrity of the ntfs filing system cannot be guaranteed if the system has not been properly shut down.
I have been trying to run 126 Xp, same Xp cloned to 126 logical partitions, from a hard disk and obviously made mistakes resulting at some stages a forced switched off to get the control back. When I interrogated with gparted it identified correctly the Xp partitions I failed to shut down cleanly and proceeded to fix the problem. Thus I think may be NTFS-3g not knowing how to proceed until after the problem has been rectified. Xp obviously can cure it with its chkdsk routine.
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 Originally Posted by saikee
I think the integrity of the ntfs filing system cannot be guaranteed if the system has not been properly shut down.
Your probably right, the ntfs-3g driver must be looking for a certain state in the file system because just mounting it without the ntfs-3g driver and with read-only worked ok, and after i finally managed to boot window and shut it down clean, every thing worked. 
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If I remember correctly, you can use the force mount option and it will mount rw even if the NTFS partition wasn't properly unmounted. I've had to do it a couple of times and it hasn't caused any problems, but obviously proper unmounting is always the best way to go.
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I've had this problem before as well - it's NOT recommended, but the only way I could mount an NTFS filesystem RW was to use the --force option. I never experienced any problems but I do suspect that Microsoft changed the specification for NTFS and never told anyone (this was an XP laptop).
It SHOULD be OK but I take no responsibility if you lose data! I didn't, in any case.
James
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