NTFS as Ubuntu home directory

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I intend to use an NTFS partition as the home directory for an Ubuntu installation, will that work?

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That sounds like a bad idea. Yes you can, but you should realize that NTFS support in linux comes with this caveat: Due to the complexity of internal NTFS structures, both the built-in 2.6.14 kernel driver and the FUSE drivers disallow changes to th…

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