I remember much of the history of Linux NTFS related woes but I am not up on the current state of affairs. What I want to do is take the Documents and Pictures sub-directories off of my Linux home dir and use symbolic links to link em to those same directories on my Windows partition.

Exactly how safe is this sort of thing these days?

Note that I have the following in my .bash_profile

# Mount Windows
/usr/bin/udisks --mount /dev/sda2 &> /dev/null
mount | grep indows
if [[ $? == 1 ]] ; then
echo ¨Error. mounting Windows partition failed.¨ >&2
exit 1
fi


Thanks, guys.


Jim C.

I don't know how save this is, as I'm windows free zone.

But you should not check for a return value of 1
as mount can return other error codes ( 1,2 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ) and some more.

It is better to check for a return code > 0
see "man mount"

Mount isnt the last command executed. Grep is.
Sneaky, huh? ;-)


Jim C.

So basically you want to swap documents and pictures from the ext filesystem to the ntfs, leaving back their sym links into linux, right?
If so, you are perfectly safe to proceed, but your kernel must have the ntfs and the language (UTF-8 ?) modules, which probably already has if you are running a recent ubuntu.

A couple of years ago I knew that some once "older" kernel were only able to read the ntfs and eventually to write, but only overwriting files perfectly fitting its borders. But already at that time, newer kernels were able to seamless use ntfs.

Righteous. Thanks man. :-)