Geek Fail, cross-platform style
Just remember this, kids: No matter what magical drivers you have installed, Windows doesn't REALLY understand Linux file systems. They may be civil to one another, might even share some good times, but at the heart of it, they're incompatible. Especially when it comes to symbolism. Those symbolic links will confuse Windows every time.
I have my main Linux partition mapped to the G drive. Linux can use something called a "symbolic link", which acts like it's a folder or a file, but is actually a link to another folder or file. They can also refer to themselves.
Which explains why during my virus scan it got to 99.8%… and then stopped. It was on 99.8% for about 35 minutes before I realized, hey, it's looking at /usr/X11R6/b/X11/X11/X11…. 78 times.
Just to be clear, that's /usr/X11R6/bin/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/X11/, if I did my pasting and counting correctly.
If I ever get around to making a comprehensive and carefully-thought out set of tags to use for my site, geek_fail may very well be on there.
(This is too geeky for just about all of you, but I have to let it out every once in a while.)