Ok.
So I have a 250 gig sata hard drive pluged in thru USB that I was saving my flies to. I also use that drive for my temp folder. The Drive is NTFS and I have all the software set up for that.
I had a bunch of torrents running. I told Ktorrent to shut down and it did. When I did that Ubuntu unmounted my USB drive ( had to turn it off and then on again toget it to remount. ) When I started ktorrent again none of the torrents I was running is there any more.....
any thoughts?

On NTFS? I did not know that was possible....

Make sure you mount the disk, seeing the temp files are located there.

Thank you for that. After that I checked and I found out that it switched my temp folder back to my main drive and that's why the torrents were not showing up. I still don't understand while that all happened, but... oh well I guess.

stoeptegel wrote:On NTFS? I did not know that was possible....

ntfs-3g

The temp folder needs to be on a filesystem which understands symlinks.

Strictly speaking, NTFS do support "symlinks", but I doubt ntfs-3g translates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

Guffen wrote:Strictly speaking, NTFS do support "symlinks", but I doubt ntfs-3g translates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS_junction_point

I don't think NTFS-3G supports symlinks on NTFS media, but I could be wrong. But you are right, NTFS itself does support basically every fancy filesystem feature imaginable.

osc wrote:Ok.
So I have a 250 gig sata hard drive pluged in thru USB that I was saving my flies to. I also use that drive for my temp folder. The Drive is NTFS and I have all the software set up for that.
I had a bunch of torrents running. I told Ktorrent to shut down and it did. When I did that Ubuntu unmounted my USB drive ( had to turn it off and then on again toget it to remount. ) When I started ktorrent again none of the torrents I was running is there any more.....
any thoughts?

I no longer run Windows (over a year now), but when I first ended all use with Windows I was having troubles of my own with getting symlinks to stick to the ntfs partitions I still had. The solution I used was to create a symlink of the mountpoint to a folder in my user folder chmoded to give me full ownership. This worked until I was able to pull off all of the data and reformat the drive with ext3.

Since then I have found linux-nfts at: http://www.linux-ntfs.org and they talk about symlinking on mounted ntfs drives. It may warrant valid to check this option out. Like I said though... I have been Windows free for a long time. But if you still share the usb drive with Windows this may prove to solve your dilemma.

Another option would be to format a small chunk of free space on the drive with ext3 or what-have-you and then create a shortcut of the entire ntfs partition in the ext3 partition -- My cousin currently uses this work-around to have remounting symlinks to his ntfs partition.

Both my cousins and my work-around requires that everything added to load at startup, but if linux-ntfs does not do the trick these two options may help you as well.

As far as this working vice-versa it is my understanding that only Vista supports symlinks out-of-box that would allow symlinking back to any *nix/other partitions you have. Although I would imagine that something like colinux may allow this to take place on XP and older WIndows platforms. http://www.colinux.org/

Sorry I cannot be of more definite help, but linux-ntfs looks fairly promising.