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From: Dan Farrell <dan@×××××××××.cx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive
Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:58:13
Message-Id: 20070708104438.3c5b9f46@pascal.spore.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive by Mick
1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 15:35:05 +0100
2 Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On 06/07/07, James <wireless@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
6 > >
7 > >
8 > > > The wiki says not to use the FUSE module in the kernel, but to
9 > > > emerge it as a separate module. I don't think it says anything
10 > > > about not including the normal ntfs driver (I'm sure I have it
11 > > > built in mine).
12 > >
13 > >
14 > > I do not have ntfs support built into the kernels on the 2 gentoo
15 > > system where ntfs3g is now working. I simple made the (dir)
16 > > set a mount point, put an entry in fstab so it happens automatically
17 > > on reboot.
18 > >
19 > > I manually mounted the drive like this:
20 > > ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
21 > >
22 > > and it works just fine......
23 >
24 > Did you have to re-emerge ntfs-3g with setuid flag for your normal
25 > user to be able to mount the ntfs partition for writing?
26
27 pascal ~ # ntfs-3g
28 ntfs-3g: No device is specified.
29
30 ntfs-3g 1.616 - Third Generation NTFS Driver
31
32 Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Yura Pakhuchiy
33 Copyright (C) 2006-2007 Szabolcs Szakacsits
34
35 Usage: ntfs-3g <device|image_file> <mount_point> [-o option[,...]]
36
37 Options: ro, force, locale=, uid=, gid=, umask=, fmask=, dmask=,
38 streams_interface=. Please see details in the manual.
39
40 Example: ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/win -o force,locale=en_EN.UTF-8
41
42 Ntfs-3g news, support and information: http://ntfs-3g.org
43
44 >
45 > Also, I noticed that there is a startup script /etc/init.d/fuse listed
46 > under rc-update. What is that for?
47
48 Adding the fuse control filesystem to /proc or /sys appears to be the
49 primary function.
50
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