Fedora NTFS-3G happily writes files with invalid chars in filename?

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

On 09/01/2012 03:55 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Joe Zeff <joe at zeff.us> wrote:
>> See if you can find a LiveCD that includes emacs.
> Thanks for the help and suggestion. I´m sure I´ll end up fixing this
> on Monday when I return and have access to the drive from my F17 Linux
> machine.
>
> Right now, I´m stuck with a XPSP3 netbook for the weekend.
>
> The idea of my post, however, was to raise a red flag about files with
> invalid names being happily written by Linux NTFS-3G... (the files
> ORIGINATED on the F17 box, as I plugged the NTFS external drive there,
> and copied a bunch of files using Midnight commander to it, which are
> now the files that are giving me trouble).
>
> That is to say, I wrote no files to that drive from XP, always from Fedora 17.
> The only time I did some writing on that external drive from windows
> was for formatting it NTFS, at the time I purchased it.
>
> FC
While I too have a Windows machine at work, I find that file creation / 
manipulation / administration is SO much easier in the Linux world than 
Windows.....I try to adhere to the common standards that are known in 
both circles...(e.g. no question marks, or other "illegal" characters 
that might get hung up in the Microsoft world!) then when I have to 
transfer files or folders from one to the other the transfers go 
smoothly and seamlessly with no glitches, because as technology marches 
on, hard disk drives keep increasing in size....and while I don't mind 
administering a 320 GB drive,....having to do even a 1TB drive on a 
Saturday could become an all day event!...


EGO II