[TriLUG] Writing to NTFS in Linux?

[Michael Tharp]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I looked into this a couple of months ago and decided that writing a 
> file of exactly the same number of bytes as the original was pretty 
> limiting. Presumably I'd have to do a size check each time to make 
> sure I wasn't going to hose the NTFS filesystem.
>
> Joe
You won't hose the filesystem, the file simply won't be resized. 
Typically, when you open a file for writing, it is truncated - on such 
an NTFS system that will not be the case, any data not overwritten will 
remain intact. I suppose if you write too much you'll get a no space on 
device error or the like, this seems to be a Try It And See case.

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Michael Tharp

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