Re: [gentoo-amd64] External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

[BRM]

In recent kernels there is also direct writable support (stable, not experimental support) for NTFS without having to use NTFS-3G/FUSE. Should work with the Vista NTFS version too.
plugdev/etc. for mounting still apply though. I've used it a couple times. Personally, I'd rather have direct kernel support than FUSE support.

Ben




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From: Chris Faulkner <cfaulkner70@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 6:04:35 AM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] External HD to work with Gentoo and Vista.

emerge ntfs3g

should solve your woes


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Paul Stear <gentoo@××××××××××××.com> wrote:

I thought I had cracked my problem of writing to a usb external ntfs HD, but I
was wrong.  Let me pose the problem and hopefully somebody out there will be
able to set me straight.
I have mp3 files on an internal HD in my gentoo box. I back this up to an
external usb HD formated for ext2 - no problems.
I have now bought another external HD which I want to copy my mp3's to and be
able to play them when the external HD is plugged into a vista machine.
So the HD is formated with ntfs and works with vista but when I plug it into
gentoo and mount either automatically or manually I can not write to the
disk. I just get an error message as a user -- "Unable to enter
file:///mnt/external. You do not have access rights to this location."
As root the permissions seem to be correct user=root,Group=root,Owner Can View
& Modify Content but if I try as user to create a folder I get "Could not
make folder /mnt/external/New Folder." message.

So the question is:- How do I get an external usb disk to be writable on
gentoo and vista?

Thanks for any help
Paul
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