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Is it a good idea to use compressed NTFS filesystem on an external harddisk?
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I'm thinking about using compressed NTFS on my external USB harddisk. It should be used for backups only. Is it possible to access it from Linux? Is it reliable? According to Microsoft it's slower than normal filesystem. Given the transfer rate (30MB/s) and the processor (2.8 GHz Phenom II X4) I th…
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1) Yes, it is possible to access it from Liunx. As others explained, ntfs-3g is capable of handling compressed ntfs. 2) reliability: compression is in ntfs for a long time now (since Windows NT, see http://www.ntfs.com/ntfs-compressed.htm). I don't …
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