"Diesel" wrote in message
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Paul news Sep 2018 17:55:33 GMT in alt.comp.freeware, wrote:

Diesel wrote:

You should NOT, I repeat, you should NOT be writing to NTFS
partitions from outside of Windows. Documentation is sketchy on
NTFS.

The ability to write to NTFS existed on Knoppix 5.3.1, which
was released roughly ten years ago. That was the first easy-to-use
formulation that I used regularly. I *never* suffered damage while
using that capability, and regularly booted 5.3.1 to fix stuff.

The spec was established by reverse engineering.

I know. I've made it a point to mention the reverse engineering, no
official docs, nothing, with nearly all posts concerning writing to
NTFS from linux...It was semi built in with that Knoppix release,
but, you could be writing to NTFS prior, if you wanted. The ... ehm,
attempts to read/write to ntfs weren't so dependable back then.
Reading was one thing, but writing without corrupting anything was
another matter entirely.

What is the best filesystem to use which can handle large files 4 GB and
which is safe for both Windows and non-Windows to write to if a disc is
shared between the two (eg used as a means of copying files between the
two)? Is exFAT any safer than NTFS?