J. Roeleveld writes:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2010 03:33:19 Dale wrote:
> > That's not doable here tho. This is a Linux only house. My nieces
> > puter is the only puter in the house with windoze on it and it is
> > just visiting. It does have NTFS so I am sort of chicken to hook it
> > up to my Linux box. It would be just my luck that it screwed up
> > something. I would mount it read only to save data but scared to do
> > any writing to it.
>
> emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g
>
> I use it to read and write from/to NTFS drives without problems. The
> in-kernel one appears to be ok as well.
Doesn't the in-kernel one have only very basic write support? Like,
modifying files only if the size stays the same?
> > I did reboot that thing. It does boot and it boots a lot faster now.
> > It appears it was fragmented pretty badly. The error messages about
> > software that used to pop up don't pop up when it boots now either.
> > Maybe AVG did clean out some stuff. I'm not holding my breath but
> > maybe it will last the kids a little while at least.
>
> It should, but just in case, take a backup of the whole drive (dd
> if=/dev/kidsdrive of=/backupofkidsdrive)
>
> That way you can always restore it quickly for them ;)
There is also the ntfsclone command in sys-fs/ntfsprogs.
Wonko
