Originally posted by birdie
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Today, in a pinch, if I absolutely must modify an NTFS file then I losetup it and modify the loop device to make sure no actual filesystem structure is changed beyond its data blocks. When I last used Windows (not since 2006 or so) I was using ext2fsd driver to mount my /home partition under Windows, and configured /UserData to be on that volume as well. That solves the whole interchange issue.
Oh, and for a dual-boot system you can safely mkswap on [/media/windows]/pagefile.sys and swap on it. Also if you want to mount NTFS, even readonly, in a dual-boot system, you should disable hibernation.
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