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NTFS USB Drive being mounted on WinXP Guest
Posted: 14. Oct 2009, 07:07
by arun79
Does the Windows XP guest cause any damage to NTFS Formatted USB Drives when they are mounted and written to?
I am asking as I had heard in the past that Linux damages NTFS drives when we attempt a write to such drives.
Re: NTFS USB Drive being mounted on WinXP Guest
Posted: 14. Oct 2009, 10:04
by Sasquatch
NTFS on Linux is now safe to use. I have my VMs on an NTFS drive and no problems. There is one thing that you can't do with them if you share it with Linux: defragment them. When you do, the next time you boot Windows with it attached, a disk check will be done (you can cancel it though) and data could be lost. I've done that a few times on my drive, and lost a VM or two after that. Windows messes something up when it's defragging it.
Re: NTFS USB Drive being mounted on WinXP Guest
Posted: 15. Oct 2009, 04:47
by VbRider
arun79 wrote:Does the Windows XP guest cause any damage to NTFS Formatted USB Drives when they are mounted and written to?
I don't see any risk, if VM XP has access to USB directly, then it will behave as a real winXP machine. Even if you'll access your files via shared folder (mounted with ntfs-3g) you might r/w hassle-free IMHO.
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