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Ext3 to NTFS - transfering data

Alright so here is my problem:
I have an ext3 external hard drive with about 270gb of data that needs to be copied/transferred to a NTFS drive.
The NTFS drive has data currently on it...which obviously needs to stay intact.
My supervisor mentioned that this problem could be a little tricky so I just have a few things i'm wondering to see if I can find the right direction to go.
I'm assuming that simply mounting the NTFS drive and moving the files to the corresponding /mnt drive would serve no purpose...or would possibly not be allowed?
Should I be thinking about creating an ext3 partition on the NTFS drive to copy my data to?
based on what i've been doing recently I am assuming that my supervisor wants me to use this method:
gather the files in the ext3 drive with tar, compress those files using gzip, then move the files to the NTFS drive, uncompress, and extract.
just as a quick example i am assuming that this:

Code:

tar cf - /dev/sdb1/scott | tar -C /dev/sdc1/ -xf -

or something similar would not work, otherwise my supervisor would not have said this was tricky. (Note: sdb1 is the ext3 drive and sdc1 is the NTFS drive)

plus, since my supervisor recently had me learning about mount and fdisk I am guessing that I may be needing to use these commands. I'm just not exactly sure what is possible and what is not allowed in this case(as far as Linux goes)

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ntfsfix

NTFSFIX(8)						      System Manager's Manual							NTFSFIX(8)

NAME

       ntfsfix - fix common errors and force Windows to check NTFS

SYNOPSIS

       ntfsfix [options] device

DESCRIPTION

       ntfsfix	is  a  utility	that fixes some common NTFS problems.  ntfsfix is NOT a Linux version of chkdsk.  It only repairs some fundamental
       NTFS inconsistencies, resets the NTFS journal file and schedules an NTFS consistency check for the first boot into Windows.

       You may run ntfsfix on an NTFS volume if you think it was damaged by Windows or some other way and it cannot be mounted.

OPTIONS

       Below is a summary of all the options that ntfsfix accepts.  Nearly all options have two equivalent names.  The short name is preceded by -
       and  the  long name is preceded by --.  Any single letter options, that don't take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g.
       -fv is equivalent to -f -v.  Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.

       -b, --clear-bad-sectors
	      Clear the list of bad sectors. This is useful after cloning an old disk with bad sectors to a new disk.

       -h, --help
	      Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.

       -n, --do-nothing
	      Do not write anything, just show what would have been done.

       -V, --version
	      Show the version number, copyright and license

BUGS

       There are no known problems with ntfsfix.  If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team:
       ntfs-3g-devel@lists.sf.net

AUTHORS

       ntfsfix was written by Anton Altaparmakov, with contributions from Szabolcs Szakacsits.	It was ported to ntfs-3g by Erik Larsson and Jean-
       Pierre Andre.

AVAILABILITY

       ntfsfix is part of the ntfs-3g package and is available from:
       http://www.tuxera.com/community/

SEE ALSO

       mkntfs(8), ntfsprogs(8)

ntfs-3g 2011.4.12AR.4						   January 2006 							NTFSFIX(8)