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Is it possible to unlink a folder in NTFS rather than delete it? ie. Can I simply delete it from the filetable?
The reason I want to do this is because I have a bunch of stuff that I've copied off from a Linux computer, and it seems that ntfs3g has done something funny in allowing filenames that shouldn't have been (for instance pipes in filenames) as well as linking some things... for instance ".wine/dosdevices/c:" is being recognised as a link to my c drive and it won't delete it without clearing out my windows drive! So I thought that perhaps I could just unlink the .wine directory and be done with it, except I can't work out how.
Sadly I can't retake the copy, since it's a backup of a computer that I just reinstalled with Windows. I might pick up one of my livecds though and do it from ntfs-3g again though. – Matthew Scharley – 2009-08-27T04:36:02.113
I would have also suggested a try with Cygwin on Windows, but I think its safer the NTFS-3G way. – nik – 2009-08-27T04:40:51.993