Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-09-01 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Keith Dart wrote: === On Mon, 08/31, Paul Hartman wrote: === Sure, it works fine for me using vfat. Be sure it's not mounted read-only, and be sure the write-protect switch on the device is not enabled. You may want to mount with the check=relaxed option to make file accesses case-insensitive

[gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Valmor de Almeida
Hello, When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible with Windows OS? Similarly when using a USB memory stick, the format is VFAT and I am also not able write. Is it possible to write and still

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 31 August 2009 22:59:46 Valmor de Almeida wrote: Hello, When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible with Windows OS? use ntfs-ng which has write support and do not mount it o=ro

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Valmor de Almeidaval.gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible with Windows OS? Yes, you can emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g and mount

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Keith Dart
=== On Mon, 08/31, Paul Hartman wrote: === Sure, it works fine for me using vfat. Be sure it's not mounted read-only, and be sure the write-protect switch on the device is not enabled. You may want to mount with the check=relaxed option to make file accesses case-insensitive (since FAT is not

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Stroller
On 31 Aug 2009, at 22:40, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... When I mount a SD memory card on my laptop, the format is NTFS and I am not able to write. Is there a way to write to it and still be compatible with Windows OS? use ntfs-ng which has write support and do not mount it o=ro What he

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Reformat the USB memory stick NTFS. I format mine as ext3 and use ext3 drivers on Windows :) One not about reformatting anything other than FAT: if he wants to use non-PC devices, they are almost always FAT-only

Re: [gentoo-user] using SanDisk Ultra SDHC or USB memory stick

2009-08-31 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 9:58 PM, Paul Hartmanpaul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Reformat the USB memory stick NTFS. I format mine as ext3 and use ext3 drivers on Windows :) Oops, I meant to say ext2