Do you use ntfs3g?

[PryGuy]

Peace to all the site visitors! :)

I've got a question: do you use the ntfs3g NTFS driver? I personally do not know what I'd do without it. I've got a huge 200Gb partition that has all my data: movies, music, etc. I can't convert it to ext3 without data loss. So the only choice for me is ntfs3g. It's very stable and very useful! So, do you use it?

[SendDerek]

Absolutly... it's a great tool!

You should add a poll to this thread!

[PryGuy]

Done, mate! :)

[Happy_Man]

Of course I do! It's the first thing I install!

[mand0]

I use it and never had a problem.

[aysiu]

I voted No, because I do not have NTFS partitions because that's the closest to my situation. I have an NTFS partition, but I don't need to access it, and if I did, read-only access would be fine.

[DC@DR]

Definitely yes! :-)

[karellen]

nope, because I use fat32 partitions to exchange data between windows and linux

[Kalixa]

No, because I am too lazy. This also makes me in doubt on what to vote.

[gh0st]

I voted yes. I don't have any NTFS partitions on my internal drives these days but I do still use ntfs-3g to read ad write an external USB disk. It has an inbuilt media player and needs NTFS to work so FAT32 isn't an option unfortunately.

I've been using it for over a year now and never really had a problem, it's a great tool.

I'm probably tempting fate by saying that though :)

...is that the sound of my hard disk dying?? ;)

[Obor]

I voted No, because I do not have NTFS partitions because that's the closest to my situation. I have an NTFS partition, but I don't need to access it, and if I did, read-only access would be fine.

+1

[Sunflower1970]

Same answer as aysiu here..

I voted "No, because I do not have NTFS partitions" because, although I do have one partition, I don't keep anything on it that I need to have access to any more.
I did try it out in January before I reformatted my Dell to have one small Windows partition while everything else was ext3.

[SishGupta]

I use it on two machines that run ubuntu.

With out it I would not use linux 99% of the time on one of the machines. Thats just how useful it is to me.

[Spike-X]

Yes. I have two internal NTFS-formatted HDs for data storage. That was the deal-breaker for me - without reliable NTFS read/write support, I would not have made the jump to Linux. I haven't had a problem with it since I installed Ubuntu a couple of months ago - files saved in Linux are accessible from Windows, and vice-versa.

[Polygon]

i dont trust it. I am not going to spend half a day reinstalling windows + 50 gb of programs, games, game maps, etc etc just because i discover a bug that corrupts my ntfs volumes with this driver.

[PryGuy]

What bug? Well, the only issue I know that is related to ntfs3g is that the files deleted on an NTFS volume do not appear in my Trash. But I do not think that it is ntfs3g developers fault.

[zanglang]

Yes, because I still have my Windows NTFS partition left over before my Ubuntu switch last year, which I've decided not to get rid of yet until I'm sure I will never have a use for it again. Ntfs-3g's pretty decent, haven't had any read/write problems so far.

I'd recommend that you slowly migrate your data to a good Linux-native filesystem though, just in case. ;)

[raja]

I have been using it for a couple of months on a very regular basis and have not had any problems so far. Highly recommended !

[Kateikyoushi]

No, I do not have ntfs partitions on this notebook.

[kelvin spratt]

yes i do could not do without it as i have 300gb of photos all on ntfs and being able to read and write to ntfs is what finally made me commit to linux and ubuntu