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

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Sep 2 00:03:50 UTC 2012


On Sat, 2012-09-01 at 16:27 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> And I´m afraid of running CHKDSK because I have tons of stuff there
> not backed up, and it wouldn´t be the first time that CHKDSK decides
> "oh, there´s a lot of invalid dirs in there, I´ll now happily lose
> your data by mangling folder names and destroying the folders layout
> while claiming to fix things". ;-)

Or just outright deleting them.  I've seen it do that.

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