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Re: Which Linux distributions do you use?

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Originally Posted by rbmj View Post
As long as you can write to the location, it won't corrupt anything.
I guess that was my question. Can dd safely create (and write to) a file on a partition whose file system is ntfs?

Or will it try to create the file, and wind up corrupting the file system because ntfs is not supported?

The target ntfs partition is on a USB external hard drive, if that matters.