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J. Roeleveld writes: |
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> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote: |
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> > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces |
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> > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is |
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> > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it |
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> > up to my Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up |
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> > something. I would mount it read only to save data but scared to do |
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> > any writing to it. |
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> emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g |
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> I use it to read and write from/to NTFS drives without problems. The |
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> in-kernel one appears to be ok as well. |
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Doesn't the in-kernel one have only very basic write support? Like, |
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modifying files only if the size stays the same? |
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> > I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now. |
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> > It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about |
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> > software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either. |
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> > Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but |
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> > maybe it will last the kids a little while at least. |
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> It should, but just in case, take a backup of the whole drive (dd |
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> if=/dev/kidsdrive of=/backupofkidsdrive) |
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> That way you can always restore it quickly for them ;) |
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There is also the ntfsclone command in sys-fs/ntfsprogs. |
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Wonko |