NTFS Corruption: Files created in Linux corrupted when Windows Boots
- by Logan Mayfield
I'm getting some file loss and corruption on my Win7/Ubuntu 12.04 dual boot setup. I have a large shared NTFS partition. I have my Windows Docs/Music/etc. directories on that file and have the comparable directors in Linux setup as a sym. link. I'm using ntfs-3g on the linux side of things to manage the ntfs partition. The shared partition is on a logical partition along with my Linux /home / and /swap partitions. The ntfs partition is mounted at boot time via fstab with the following options:
ntfs-3g users,nls=utf8,locale=en_US.UTF-8,exec,rw
The problem seems to be confined to newly created and recently edited files. I have not see data loss or corruption when creating/editing files in Windows and then moving over to Ubuntu. I've been using the sync command aggressively in Ubuntu to try to ensure everything is getting written to the HDD. I do not use hibernate in Windows so I know it's not the usual missing files due to Hibernation problem. I'm not seeing any mount related issues on dmesg. Most recently I had a set of files related to a LaTeX document go bad. Some of them show up in Ubuntu but I am unable to delete them. In the GUI file browser they are given thumbnails associated with files I created on my last boot of Windows. To be more specific: I created a few png files in Windows. The files corrupted by that Windows boot are associated with running PdfLatex on a file and are not image files. However, two of the corrupted files show up with the thumbnail image of one of the previously mentioned png files. The png files are not in the same directory as the latex files but they are both win the Document Folder tree.
I've had sucess with using NTFS for shared data in the past and am hoping there's some quirk here I'm missing and it's not just bad luck. On one hand this appears to be some kind of Windows problem as data loss occurs when I boot to Windows after having worked in Ubuntu for a while. However, I'm assuming it's more on the Ubuntu end as it requires the special NTFS drivers.
Edit for more info: This is a Lenovo Thinkpad L430. Purchased new in the last month. So it's a fairly fresh install. Many of the files on the shared partition were copied over from a previous NTFS formatted shared partition on another HDD.
As requested: here's a sample chkdsk log. Some of the files its mentioning were files that got deleted off the partition while in Ubuntu. Others were created/edited but not deleted.
Checking file system on D:
Volume dismounted. All opened handles to this volume are now invalid.
Volume label is Files.
CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
Attribute record of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x2 is cross linked
starting at 0x789f47 for possibly 0x21 clusters.
Some clusters occupied by attribute of type 0x80 and instance tag 0x2
in file 0x42 is already in use.
Deleting corrupt attribute record (128, "")
from file record segment 66.
86496 file records processed.
File verification completed.
385 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
Deleted invalid filename Screenshot from 2012-09-09 09:51:27.png (72) in directory 46.
The NTFS file name attribute in file 0x48 is incorrect.
53 00 63 00 72 00 65 00 65 00 6e 00 73 00 68 00 S.c.r.e.e.n.s.h.
6f 00 74 00 20 00 66 00 72 00 6f 00 6d 00 20 00 o.t. .f.r.o.m. .
32 00 30 00 31 00 32 00 2d 00 30 00 39 00 2d 00 2.0.1.2.-.0.9.-.
30 00 39 00 20 00 30 00 39 00 3a 00 35 00 31 00 0.9. .0.9.:.5.1.
3a 00 32 00 37 00 2e 00 70 00 6e 00 67 00 0d 00 :.2.7...p.n.g...
00 00 00 00 00 00 90 94 49 1f 5e 00 00 80 d4 00 ......I.^....
File 72 has been orphaned since all its filenames were invalid
Windows will recover the file in the orphan recovery phase.
Correcting minor file name errors in file 72.
Index entry found.000 of index $I30 in file 0x5 points to unused file 0x11.
Deleting index entry found.000 in index $I30 of file 5.
Index entry found.001 of index $I30 in file 0x5 points to unused file 0x16.
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Index entry found.002 of index $I30 in file 0x5 points to unused file 0x15.
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Index entry DOWNLO~1 of index $I30 in file 0x28 points to unused file 0x2b6.
Deleting index entry DOWNLO~1 in index $I30 of file 40.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry Screenshot from 2012-09-09 09:51:27.png
of index $I30 with parent 0x2e in file 0x48.
Deleting index entry Screenshot from 2012-09-09 09:51:27.png in index $I30 of file 46.
An index entry of index $I30 in file 0x32 points to file 0x151e8
which is beyond the MFT.
Deleting index entry latexsheet.tex in index $I30 of file 50.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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Index entry comp220-lab3.synctex.gz of index $I30 in file 0xda69 points to unused file 0xd098.
Deleting index entry comp220-lab3.synctex.gz in index $I30 of file 55913.
Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry comp220-numberGrammars.aux
of index $I30 with parent 0xda69 in file 0xa276.
Deleting index entry comp220-numberGrammars.aux in index $I30 of file 55913.
The file reference 0x500000000cd43 of index entry comp220-numberGrammars.out of index $I30
with parent 0xda69 is not the same as 0x600000000cd43.
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The file reference 0x500000000cd45 of index entry comp220-numberGrammars.pdf of index $I30
with parent 0xda69 is not the same as 0xc00000000cd45.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry comp230-quiz1.synctex.gz
of index $I30 with parent 0xda6f in file 0xd183.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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An index entry of index $I30 in file 0xf6f0 points to file 0x1528b
which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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which is beyond the MFT.
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Unable to locate the file name attribute of index entry a0
of index $I30 with parent 0x14b61 in file 0xd29c.
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