Apparently there is now full read-write support for NTFS partitions in Linux. Thanks to a modification to the linux-ntfs development project, full support for writing in a Windows NTFS partition from Linux is now possible without restriction, unlike before where writing was either not supported or very limited.
Well, I had to give this a try; unfortunately, so far the results aren’t as great as I had hoped for. Writing files into existing directories works fine; however, there is an issue with creating new directories and writing files into them. Reading and writing the files in the new directory is not a problem under the ntfs-3g driver in Linux; however, when I reboot to Windows and try to access the same files, Windows tells me that the directory I’ve created is corrupt, and doing a repair on the drive removes the directory and all files within. If I leave the corrupted directory alone and go back to Linux, the directory can be read with no problem by the ntfs-3g driver.
So there’s promise there, but still a few bugs to work out before it can be reliably used. I’ll definately keep my eye on this since flawless interoperativity between a Windows NTFS drive and Linux on the same system is definately something that has been a long time coming.
