[gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

[James]

Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:


> >    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/sdb1               1       60801   488384001    7  HPFS/NTFS

> emerge ntfs3g - works for me.


Hello Neil,

OK, I'll give ntfs-3g a shot. It looks OK, except it says it does not
work with compress files?

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g

"It provides full read-write access to NTFS, but currently lacks support for
encrypted and compressed files and POSIX attributes. "

so does it work with zip, tar, bz and compressed files?

Looking at the above wiki
and this wiki:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_Windows_partitions_%28DOS%2C_FAT%2C_NTFS%29

There seems to be some conflict on setting up the drive and the kernel.

Do I need ntfs support compiled into the kernel?

I tried to follow the first page, verbatim and got this error:

#  ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows   <yes I made the /mnt/windows dir>

Error reading bootsector: Input/output error
Failed to startup volume: Input/output error
Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Input/output error
NTFS is inconsistent. Run chkdsk /f on Windows then reboot it TWICE!
The usage of the /f parameter is very IMPORTANT! No modification was
made to NTFS by this software.                                        


But it seems to be working. I can cd into it and
edit files with vi.
Moving a pdf file worked too..

THANKS NEIL!

James



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