On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 03:18:33PM -0500, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> On 01/26/2009 02:04 PM, Bill Horne wrote:
>> I didn't know Linux could write to the NTFS file system: is that
>> possible now, or is ClamAV only able to ID viruses on NTFS disks, but  
>> not fix them?
>>   
> Linux has been able to write to NTFS for a number of years, I think at  
> least back to the 2.4 kernel or earlier. I've been able to use QTParted  
> to resize NTFS partitions for a number of years also.

While true, write support for NTFS in the original Linux NTFS driver
was always considered unsafe.  Stable writing of NTFS has only
happened since the release of ntfs-3g drivers, which has itself only
been considered stable since about February of 2007.

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