Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 02:23:25AM +, RW wrote: On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 03:36:33AM +, RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread Chris Whitehouse
RW wrote: On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-10 Thread RW
On Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:09:57 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Why not as a matter of curiosity? It has its limitations (eg max file size) but it's very cross platform. ntfs is much more robust than fat32, if you crash windows or pull the plug, you are more likely to lose data

Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I added this to fstab: # DeviceMountpoint FStype

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot-up time, so I

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Rem P Roberti
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:43:45PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Question 1) I have this alias that allows me to mount my windoze drive at /c: alias mdc='mount_ntfs /dev/ad1s1 /c' It works fine. I thought that I could automate the process further by mounting /c at boot

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 04:05:20PM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: Roland Smith wrote: When using the built-in mount_ntfs you should really mount read-only. Maybe using the options 'ro' and 'late' will help. I changed the fstab options to 'ro' and /c still won't mount at startup. This is not

Re: Mounting /c

2009-01-09 Thread RW
On Fri, 9 Jan 2009 18:17:49 -0500 Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: In general, you should not expect to be able to write to an ntfs file system type.That is why I converted my MS-Win file system to FAT32. Not a good idea. According to the man page, some limited writing can be