Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-04 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g... Indeed, this has to be looked into. Rod, could

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote: rpm -qa kmod\* and ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko` (if this command gives you a list of your current directory, then please don't post the output) Beware that even when the

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should move this conversation to the

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook
This is just a followup post for those who would like to know how this conversation developed. The details are in this ELRepo mailing list thread: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-November/000102.html In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is quite

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote: In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is quite limited.  Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel Kconfig file: The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote: In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is quite limited. Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel Kconfig file:

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel -2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 Using the in-kernel ntfs module (kmod-ntfs) ? Yes. Interesting (and

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook
Interesting (and curious). That means that the description in the Kconfig file is obsolete. Thanks for your input. My attempt to write to NTFS produced a permission denied message. This needs more investigation. Akemi You could have saved lots of time and efforts if you cared to read

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rod Rook wrote: Interesting (and curious). That means that the description in the Kconfig file is obsolete. Thanks for your input. My attempt to write to NTFS produced a permission denied message. This needs more investigation. Akemi You could have saved lots

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: funny. Rod, that wiki page ends with: Written and currently maintained by AkemiYagi. Comments/improvement welcome. I guess the Akemi you replied to had read that page :-D . and I suspect you are

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote: and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g... Indeed, this has to be looked into. Rod, could you show us the output from: rpm -qa

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Ron Loftin wrote: ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is mounted read-write. However, when I try to create a file on that filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error,

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the ELrepo site, I

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo version of kmod-ntfs.

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Could you show us the output returned by: uname -mr ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko` ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko` uname -mr 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Could you show us the output returned by: uname -mr ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko` ls -l

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Something is wrong here.  You are missing /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking? It's

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Something is wrong here. You are missing /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from kmod-ntfs works, too. That's what I thought.  However, when I mount a partition created with Windoze 2000, I can read files and directories, but not

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from kmod-ntfs works, too. That's what I thought. However, when I mount a partition created with

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now all about kmod-ntfs and not

[CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Loftin
I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo version of kmod-ntfs. After installing as per the directions on the ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount with no options the output

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote: I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo version of kmod-ntfs. After installing as per the directions on the ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Loftin
On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:39 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote: I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo version of kmod-ntfs. After installing as

Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Rod Rook
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:39 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote: On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote: I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older version of that other OS that