[I Fix 4 U]

OK, well instead of mounting an ntfs partition, i think i could write to it as a block device safely right? I wanted to save an image of one of my partitions to my only good destination partition, but the filesystem is NTFS. I'd be using partimage. If i choose save to and the location would be dev/hda2/image.001 that would be my first harddrive second partition which is NTFS. Will this work?

[Whiteskin]

I have a feeling, no, but then again, I could be wrong. I wish there was some concrete evidence of the stability of kernel level NTFS write support.

[I Fix 4 U]

This site says this: http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/...e/index-5.html

3. Partimage can work on file systems which are not supported (stable write support) by the linux kernel, such as NTFS, BSD ffs, XFS/JFS in a non-patched kernel. To run "dd if=/dev/zero", you need the write support in linux.

If it writes directly bypassing the kernel shouldn't it be able to write to the free space on a block device, or is something up?

[Maverick83]

Try it, and then if it doesn't work, sue their pants off.

[Topato]

Yes sueing is always a good alternative.

[I Fix 4 U]

I better look through that site for a disclaimer etc, if they ain't got one and i screw up they're toast

[Whiteskin]

If you are writing directly to the free space, it may work, however, it would be a one of thing... You probably wouldn't be able to acess it from windows... and you may run into corruption issues (though it may not happen).

[I Fix 4 U]

I kinda realize windows may not recognize it because linux wouldn't write to the mft (master file table) where data about all the files are stored. I think partimage should see it for a restore though. I hope no corruption occurs.