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

[Matt Campbell]

Hi Claude,

Good luck....

>From a quick look through the man pages these may all be high level drivers
allowing you to read and write to the disc, but not to format or repair NTFS
filesystems.  Let us know if you get something to work.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net [mailto:sgvlug-bounces at sgvlug.net] On Behalf
Of Claude Felizardo
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 11:04 AM
To: SGVLUG Discussion List.
Subject: NTFS access -- was Re: [SGVLUG] FW: Hard drive question

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Matt Campbell <dvdmatt at gmail.com> wrote:>
>
> P.S.  I already have ntfs-3g installed, it does not allow me to format an
> NTFS filesystem from Linux.
>
> Matt
>
>
> 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
>
> dkms-ntfs - Driver for reading and writing on NTFS formatted volumes
>
> ntfs-config - A front-end to Enable/disable NTFS write support
>
>
>
> 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

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