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Originally Posted by
Forester
Well, yes there is. Have you noticed how Knoppix uses (compressed) loop devices a lot ? You can think of these as filesystems-in-a-file instead of filesystems-on-a-partition....
As a moderator, I passed the above post, as it is not spam and on topic.
However, as a user and someone who has been on this site for nearly 8 years and seen over and over again the reports of disaster after writing to NTFS, I couldn't just pass it and not warn others that it is not a universal opinion. Yea, you can create a file system within another file system under Linux. But to do so you still need to write to the physical file system. Not just to create it but during all of the writing processes. I know of no reason to think that this is safer than just writing to NTFS (which is unfortunately still not safe).
If you want another file system on your hard disk consider shrinking the main partition, or use that "back up" partition that the vendor wasted disk space to create (after making a backup disc), and create a second Linux or FAT partition there, or even just add another inexpensive hard disk. An extra partition can be a Linux partition or a FAT partition (A FAT partition will be subjected to the 4GB-1 file size but lets you transfer files easily between Windows and Linux). But if you write to a NTFS partition, have very good backups of everything and keep making backups, the effects of corruption are often not noticed for some time after the damage is done.
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Verifying of md5 checksum and burning a CD at slow speed are important.
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