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Re: problems read/write mounting of NTFS

From: Bob McGowan <bob_mcgowan(at)symantec.com>
Date: Mon Aug 20 2007 - 11:52:41 EDT

Krzysztof LubaÅ„ski wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:03 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:

>> But, it was formatted with NTFS and I was not able to write to it[...]
>> [...]
>> I've also adjusted the associated options in /etc/fstab, but I still 
>> can't write to the disk.

>
> Hello.
>
> The standard NTFS kernel driver and ntfsprogs have only a limited
> write support. E.g. the kernel driver only allows to change existing
> files, but without changing their length.
>

>> I then thought I should try the FUSE based tools, so I removed the 
>> ntfsprogs package and libntfs9 that it depends on and tried to install 
>> ntfs-3g.  But it depends on 'libfuse2 (>=2.6), but all that's available 
>> in Etch is 2.5.3-4.4, which is already installed. [...]

>
> NTFS-3G is not in stable yet, try installing it from
> http://backports.org/. It will surely allow you to write.
>

That's the rub - I did try to install NTFS-3G, from backports, but it has the dependency mentioned (on libfuse2 >=2.6), which didn't get resolved by the installer.

I'll check backports again, and see if the libfuse2 library is there. If so I'll try installing it "manually" and report back.

Thanks.

-- 
Bob McGowan

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