Hi there,

I'm using ntfs-3g on Ubuntu 9.04.
The Filesystem allow me to create files using the following characters:
? : "

Filename Examples:
HoAmI?.avi
"Hello".mp3
Ntfs-3g:VeryGood.mkv

However, when I use this filesystem partition on Windows 7, CheckDisk says that characters are invalids in file names and delete the files.

Is that a bug???
Thanks in advance

Hi,


And any character except '\0' and '/', thus conforming to the Posix standard.


This is also true for a few other characters such as * ? < > because Windows 7 conforms to the Microsoft standard.


Where would the bug be ? in your example there is no violation of the claimed standard.

Regards

Jean-Pierre

Technically this is not a bug.
But NTFS is the Microsoft's file system, and is used by every Windows computer out there. For compatibility reasons, it would be better for ntfs-3g to conform to both - Posix and Microsoft - standards.
This can be made a default behavior with a mount option to override if someone needs it.

Actually this looks to be a bug in Windows 7 CHKDSK. It shouldn't remove files in the POSIX filename space.

It would be interesting to check what happens with such files created by CYGWIN. Are they also removed?

Files which such characters in the filename are perfectly legal in the POSIX filename space and others are creating them too, not only NTFS-3G.

Regards, Szaka

abgrj, NTFS-3G allows colon ':' in file names, what is a violation of DOS rules. This is used for a specific support of junction paths.
A such a directory (C:) cannot be chdir'ed in native NT environment, but it seems not to be a problem for chkdsk.

CHKDSK allows colon because it's not a violation of the NTFS specification. Explanation is here: http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g ... filenames2