NTFS hibernated partition: what is it?
Hi: Can somebody tell me what an NTFS hibernated partition is? Google is full of references but nobody explains what it is. I found it in this context:
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14 The NTFS partition is hibernated. Use the 'remove_hiberfile' |
It seems pretty clear. It's a windows NTFS partition which has been hibernated - thus you won't be able to mount it as read/write. If you have windows on another partition, rebooting into that and shutting down properly should clear it, or you can force mount it with the remove_hiberfile option.
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I see. I remember windows offers several options when one wants to shutdown. One of them is "Hibernate", or something like that. But what exactly is hibernation? And in what way is it useful to the user? I mean, what is the idea.
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Hibernation in basic terms means dumping memory to disk and shutting down. When you boot up again the image is reloaded into memory and in theory you get a faster boot plus everything is exactly as you left it, same windows open, same files open, etc, etc.
Different operating systems do it differently. Windows uses a "hiberfile.sys" (presumably in the same vein as "pagefile.sys"), *nix systems just use swap as far as I know. For me it's not that useful - hence I never use it, to others (e.g. laptop users on the move) it might be. |
Thank you very much for the explanation.
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I don't know about how Windows hibernates, but I wouldn't touch a hibernated partition, let alone mount it read-write, if I were you. And especially, messing around with an NTFS partition is not a good idea on any day; Windows' file systems aren't exactly known for their resilient data protection and recovery.
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This is very bad news. For I have just install FUSE and NTFS-3G and was very happy with it.
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Thank you very much for your advice. As to the shared partition, it is one that does not contain any OS. I use as kind of a storage place.
It is a pity that windows OSs do not understand ext2 or ext3. It would be a courtesy on the part of MS to devise such a thing, given that Linux understands FAT and NTFS FSs. Specially considering that so many people runs both OSs in there machines. |
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Also cross-platform volume sharing normally violates security on both system. ntfs-3g allows you to view every file on windows from linux. ext2ifs allows you to view every file on linux system from windows. |
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Just do it.
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If it was my system I would "just do it".
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