NTFS access -- was Re: [SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

[Claude Felizardo]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:>
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> P.S.  I already have ntfs-3g installed, it does not allow me to format an
> NTFS filesystem from Linux.
>
> Matt
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> From: Matt Campbell [mailto:dvdmatt at gmail.com]
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 10:00 AM
>  To: 'SGVLUG Discussion List.'
>  Subject: RE: [SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question
>
> Hi Dan,
>
> Nice.  Is this something that Fedora doesn't do for legal paranoia reasons,
> or is there and RPM that adds NTFS functionality?  I looked, but didn't see
> anything obvious.  Has anyone used or could recommend one of these?
>
> ntfs-3g – Linux NTFS userspace driver  (What is a userspace driver?  A real
> driver which doesn't run in system space?)
>
> ntfsprogs – NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities
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> dkms-ntfs – Driver for reading and writing on NTFS formatted volumes
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> ntfs-config – A front-end to Enable/disable NTFS write support
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>
> Matt

[SNIP]

Hey, I wasn't aware of these different programs.  I don't like
installing everything as it makes it harder to know what you really
need.  Looks like i only have ntfsprogs and libntfs installed on my
Mandrake machines which explains why I can only mount NTFS as
read-only.  Wish i had known this as I had just reformatted a spare
drive from NTFS to FAT32 a few days ago so I could write to it from
Linux.  I'll have to try the other programs when I get a chance.

Do I just need to install dkms-ntfs or do I need ntfs-config as well?
 Does anyone use ntfs-3g?  How stable are these things?

claude