NTFS issues

For some reason I have been having repeated corruptions of NTFS partitions used under Linux. Unlike FAT32 partitions there is no fool proof way to check for NTFs volumes data corruption in Linux. ntfsresize which is the recommended tool itself requests the use of chkdsk under windows to rectify errors. This ofcourse requires a windows installation. Since the virtob virus still manages to infect files, I am loathe to return to XP.
The last straw was the corruption of the MFT tables, which could not be recitified by chkdsk and required testdisk. So I have formatted all NTFS partitions and converted them into FAT32 for lesser headaches.

More commands

There seems to be no easy way to find the system's ip or to renew the ip address by using the GUI. Two commands to use :

dhclient -r : to renew ip address same as ipconfig /renew
ifconfig : displays net connection details.

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