Hey all,

I have an external NTFS-formatted disk drive housing all of my digital photos. I installed Picasa on my Linux box to manage the photos. The partition needs to be in NTFS because I have other Windows boxes in the house that need to write to it as well.

My question is, how does Picasa handle writing to the NTFS file system? Does it use the kernel's NTFS-3G support or does it use its own implementation via Wine?

In either case, is it safe to rely on these technologies or do I risk corrupting the NTFS partition?

Thanks,
j0rd4n

Hi j0rd4n,
normally for this kind of application they don't care what file system you have, as long as they have permission to read/write it. Same with wine, openoffice or etc. So, the answer is it depends on you'd install ntfs-3g or not. If your OS can read/write it, then picasa can as well.

However, please remember ntfs-3g probably not quite support asian language (like chinese file name) well. If the file name in NTFS is chinese, in Linux probably you will see the file name become alot of symbol.

Regards,
Ks

Okay, that makes sense. I was thinking it was probably this way. Thanks for the assistance!