I have just had a thought about the NTFS mounting problem. From experience, I know that looking at NTFS inner workings is relatively straight forward when the MFT (Master File Table) is contiguous. However, it is rather more messy when the MFT is fragmented. I happen to know the the MFT of /dev/hda1 had 3 extants when I last examined it in any detail. The partition contained more than 200k files; although it had been defragged fairly recently, there was some directory fragmentation. I don't think that the M$ NTFS defragmentor is particularly effective.
-- Ubuntu 6.0.6 Installer disc formatter aborted, can't mount NTFS partition https://launchpad.net/bugs/62871 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
