On Wednesday 10 October 2007 10:53 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Remember that your filesystem has to be Windows compatible, and if you > are going to get an image of a DVD of something over 4GB I understand > that that means NTFS. > My exp. has been that using the ntfs-3g progams to make the filesystem > is not reliable. > I recommend - believe it or not - that one should use Windows-XP to > make the filesystem on your portable usb drive. > I had no problems with the following....
Create ntfs partion with cfdisk Format ntfs partion with mkfs.ntfs /dev/sda1 Mount drive (writable) with mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbdrive/ -o force (Having first created folder /mnt/usbdrive)
