Re: best practices for an external hard drive that many hosts might use?

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 On Friday 23 November 2007, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> On Nov 23, 2007 2:24 PM, Brendan <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > Not true. Latest Ubuntu couldn't read a Vista-formatted NTFS partition, 
> > while SuSE could. Have no idea why this is. Really stymied me. 
> 
> ntfs-3g (not installed by default, iirc) allows read/write to Vista's 
> NTFS, but you should always be careful when dealing with important 
> data on proprietary file systems :-)  Some dual-booters run into 
> trouble because their Windows NTFS file system is unclean, either due 
> to partial corruption or improper transaction resolution from improper 
> shutdown...