[TriLUG] Trouble with NTFS partition on Linux

[Paul Boyle]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:27:15 -0500Scott Lambdin <lopaki at gmail.com> wrote:

> The size seems okay - it is 116 * 4096.   My other email went to
> moderation, but I was wondering why you can't just reformat with
> mkfs.ntfs.

I could reformat, but at this point I would rather see if the
file system could be repaired. I mirror the data using rsync, and the
mirror is in good shape.  If I was going to reformat, I would reformat
as an ext4 file system rather than NTFS.

Paul 


> 
> --Scott



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