On Monday, 08 June 2015 at @07:06 zulu, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Why? If you use gparted (ntfsprogs, under the covers, IIRC), the system > will chkdsk on the next boot. No such requirement exists with Microsoft's > tools That's not been my experience... gparted does use ntfs-3g to work on NTFS partitions (what linux-based tool doesn't?), but does not by default set the dirty bit. Its GUI also offers much-finer granularity than microsoft's.