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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
