On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 03:01:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> Well, I don't use ntfs, but I used to, and I know the ntfs-3g works and
> the captive is not recommended by people much more familiar with it than
> myself for writing. It works fine reading.
The ntfs kernel driver works very good for r
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 05:55:45PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:
> My understanding of attitudes toward Captive is that it follows the
> lines of "we hate it because it just wraps a microsoft driver and is
> thus evil. it should have been written from scratch". Something which I
> am not concerne
somethin2cool wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
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somethin2cool wrote:
Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good
idea.
Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better id
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somethin2cool wrote:
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> Back when I still had windows, I created a fat32 partition and used that
> to share, but since then I have reclaimed the space that Windows was
> using and changed it so that Windows runs in a VM so I can still access
> wi
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 14:43 +0200, Joe Hart wrote:
> somethin2cool wrote:
> > it would be useful to be able to copy files onto ntfs external hds. (i
> > like reiser 4, but lets not get into alternatives)
> >
> > I know about captive and have never got it to work. Fuse seems new, and
> > somehow re
Joe Hart wrote:
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somethin2cool wrote:
Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea.
Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows mig
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somethin2cool wrote:
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>> Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
>> work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea.
>>
>> Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows might
>>
Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to
work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea.
Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows might
complain ;)
Joe
Good advice, but a good tool to have around nonetheless.
You
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somethin2cool wrote:
> it would be useful to be able to copy files onto ntfs external hds. (i
> like reiser 4, but lets not get into alternatives)
>
> I know about captive and have never got it to work. Fuse seems new, and
> somehow related. I read a
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