ntfs-3g - Full read and write support for ntfs filesystems
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Has anybody tried the ntfs-3g driver or whatever else it is?
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=23836054&forum_id=2697
It requires fuse >= 2.50 ( http://fuse.sourceforge.net/ ) to be loaded prior to compiling and running ntfs-3g, and the fuse module has to be loaded at boot time if you want ntfs rw support. Can somebody give me a hand with this one please? I remember editing the /etc/modules.conf used to do it but am a bit lost now as to how to do it as something has changed, and the .conf no longer exists. Is it enough to simply put the word fuse into /etc/modules ?
MikeP
Right you are, but I found one small gotcha
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No problems yet with writing to my winxp partition, haven't tried booting xp yet because after using Mepis nearly full time now, xp just looks so dog ugly, and it is so flamin slow. I really don't want to boot XP, in fact, I really want it off my drive but I need to be able to use 2 of its features that so far, Linux can't do. I'll cover this in another post.
kdiskfree reports the partitions status under the name /dev/fuse instead of /dev/sda1, but the entry for /dev/sda1 is still there as a mountable device, although it can not be mounted using the simple click with a mouse because it's already mounted under fuse. This could cause some confusion to the unitiated.
To take advantage of fuse and ntfs-3g I changed my fstab entry for the partition from this
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs auto,users,exec,ro,umask=0222 0 0
to this
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g auto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
I wonder if there is a way to mount an external hard disk drive formatted as ntfs with fuse and ntfs-3g ?
MikeP
man pages
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reading a few manpages tells me that you're right
just add the name of the module to /etc/modules