Ugh... missed the relevant line! Not enough space to extended mft data: Operation not supported
Looks like I hit the file limit. Installing the latest stable drivers from source has fixed the problem. Cheers, Steve On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 11:47 +1300, Craig Falconer wrote: > steve wrote, On 06/01/10 11:39: > > I've got an external backup disk that I use for backup. As it's living > > in a primarily Microsoft desktop environment, it's formatted NTFS for > > easy retrieval in case of failure. > > > > /etc/fstab entry: > > > > /dev/sdc1 /backup ntfs-3g > > defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,noauto 0 2 > > > > Mounts fine. > > /dev/sdc1 on /backup type fuseblk > > (rw,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) > > > > Now I want to create a new directory ... > > mkdir -p '/backup/Wednesday/user/projects/YEAR 10/01/06 Jan 2010' > > > > mkdir: cannot create directory: `/backup/Wednesday/user/projects/YEAR > > 10/01/06 Jan 2010': Operation not supported > > > > Debian lenny, up to date. > > > > Any ideas?? > > That's weird. > > Is it complaining about the path? can you make those directories one at > a time? > > Can you write to or touch any file on disk? > > Was it an unclean dismount earlier which left the drive needing a > chkdisk/scandisk ? Look in syslog output. > > And the final one - can you make those directories from a windows box? > -- Steve Holdoway <[email protected]> http://www.greengecko.co.nz MSN: [email protected] GPG Fingerprint = B337 828D 03E1 4F11 CB90 853C C8AB AF04 EF68 52E0
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