On Thursday 04 December 2003 11:53 am, Jason Clinton wrote:

> What's particularly disturbing is that after you write to NTFS from
> Linux, variably, WinXp/2000 will run a full chkdsk sweep on the drive
> before booting up.

That sounds reasonable, and probably deliberate.  Linux probably sets the 
"dirty" bit on the partition to force that.  Given a potentially flawed 
write, you'd want to check it before running as if the drive were normal.