Gutsy version of NTFS allows improper characters in file names

[carltonh]

Binary package hint: ntfs-3g

When I rip music to ogg files in ext3, Characters like "?" or ":" question mark or colon are allowed and fine in ext3, and Ubuntu 7.10 allows these files to transfer as is to an NTFS partition, and they continue to work as if legitimately named in the NTFS partition while in Ubuntu. However, Windows XP does not acknowledge these as legitimate characters, and when the problem is in a folder title, Windows XP is unable to access the files within the folder.

That said, is a sense if used properly, this might be a feature as much as a flaw, creating files or folders that Windows cannot access...but I assume this is not intentional.

[Szabolcs Szakacsits (szaka)]

This is 100% intentional, documented at http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2
and in fact Windows can access them fine for example by the Windows port of ntfsprogs.