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[Pedro Villavicencio <pedro@xxxxxxxxxx>]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need
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** Changed in: gvfs (Ubuntu)
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662816

Title:
  Gvfs may corrupt NTFS partitions

Status in “gvfs” package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gvfs

  I have a dual boot machine that runs Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
  I have my NTFS partitions in the fstab so they mount themselves
  automatically.

  I don't know exact steps to reproduce but it sometimes happen. I just
  moved some pictures to my NTFS partition from my camera on Ubuntu then
  I restarted my machine to boot in Windows to do something (also many
  programs on my XP updated themselves). After I finished my work I
  switched back to Ubuntu and I downloaded a ZIP and wanted to extract
  it. It had a lot of files. Extraction result in a lots of I/O errors.
  I took a look at the place I tried to extract the files and I saw
  something weird. Some of my music files appeared in that directory but
  with a different filename. I was able to play them but I was unable to
  delete them (no such file error or I/O errors, corrupted file
  descriptors?). Then I switched back to my Windows partition and ran
  "chkdsk -f" to repair the partition, it spotted the problem and
  deleted all corrupt file descriptors (all the pictures I just moved).
  After that, everything worked fine (and those wierd "links" to my
  music files also gone away). Since I moved the pictures from my camera
  and chkdsk deleted them they are lost permanently.

  There was a similar issue a month ago, when I "lost" all my music
  files. I had a directory where I store all my music files but nautilus
  showed the directory as empty however I was able play any music if
  know its exact file name and typed its exact path in my music player.
  I switched to Windows and ran "chkdsk" an it restored the file
  descriptors.

  Under windows I used to pull out my pen drive immediately after I
  copied the files on it without properly shutting it down. I have never
  had problems about this on that system but not in Ubuntu. Under Ubuntu
  if you do the same without umount you will lost or corrupt all the
  files you copied. If you always umount there is no problem (you see
  the pen drive led flashing maybe it closing the file descriptors and
  commit the changes that time?). Maybe a similar thing happens with the
  NTFS partitions if I shut down or restart my system just after I
  copied some files on my NTFS partition. Maybe the filesystem manager
  forget to commit?

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: gvfs 1.6.1-0ubuntu1build1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-21.32-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-21-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon Oct 18 18:38:28 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gvfs

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