NTFS partitions in Ubuntu 9.10 question

[QueBert]

I'm currently dual booting Win 7 & Ubuntu 9.10, I'm in the process of cleaning up a HD so I can add OSX into the mix. I'm in Ubuntu (KDE) right now using Dolphin. I was moving my old USER folder from Win 7 to a different partition, it only took a second in Dolphin, there's about 24 gigs of data. Which leads me to my question, if I'm moving files around NTFS partitions in KDE and boot back to Win 7 what will happen to the files? I'm curious, because if I had moved the same USER folder in Win 7 it would have took a long time to cut and paste the files. Ubuntu can't be actually physically moving the files that quick, so I'm wonder is it not a good idea to move files between NTFS partitions in Ubuntu?

 

[growled]

I move Windows files all the time from within Ubuntu with no problems. The NTFS-3G driver is very stable.

 

[QueBert]

that's good to hear, I'm still trying to figure out how it was so quick with 24 gigs of files though. Maybe it was moving them in the background and not actually done. I'm not too use to using Dolphin so I don't know how it works.

 

[v8envy]

Are you sure you moved the folder and didn't just create a symlink? OSes are smart enough to know a move on the same partition is just a rename, but cross-partition movement must cause a copy & delete, which is a heapin' helpin' of I/O.