[mythtv-users] python filewriting and partition boundaries

[HP-mini]

On Tue, 2013-04-02 at 21:22 -0400, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 3/31/2013 12:57, John Pilkington wrote:
> > It seems to me that the most unusual thing about what I have done with
> > this box is using a python script to cut and concatenate video files.
> > The script is at MythDVBcut on the wiki.  In the scripts as posted it is
> > used only for HD content.  It doesn't include any checking for partition
> > boundaries, because I assumed that this would be done automatically.
> 
> When you mount a filesystem, the filesystem translates your file 
> accesses to its own internal structure on the physical media.  You do 
> not directly access the physical media, so there is no possible way for 
> you to corrupt the physical media, or the partition data stored therein. 
>   The only way you could have corrupted it yourself would be if you 
> logged in as root, and wrote directly to the device node.
> _______________________________________________

You mention the first corrupt file system was NTFS.
Until recently.. writing to an NTFS file system from linux was not
recommended.

Possibly the NTFS partition/HDD was removable &/or shared with windows
box.
Could you blame the drive or adapter or windows?