I have an external drive that I use with my laptop and desktop. It's formatted NTFS. I've noticed that if I try edit a file directly on the drive and save it, it wont let me save it due to a permissions issue. I usually work around this by just saving it locally to edit and then transferring it back to the drive afterwords but it's kind of annoying.
Does NTFS keep track of the user that created any given file? I was wondering if I get the permissions errors because I copied the files on a previous install of windows and have since formatted my machine probably 3 times. My other concern is that possibly when using the hard drive on Ubuntu it may have messed something up. I don' know how likely that is though.
Anyone have any input? I was wondering if formatting my External drive with a non-journaling File System would help.