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List:       suse-linux-uk-schools
Subject:    Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] One (kick into ) touch external drive
From:       "Paul Graydon" <graydpau () hhc ! ac ! uk>
Date:       2004-07-19 7:33:22
Message-ID: 40FB8761.368.1863E6 () hhc ! ac ! uk
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IIRC as of kernel 2.6 NTFS (the default kernel for Suse 9.1) write 
should be enabled by default having been finally rated as stable.  I 
can't swear for certain whether Suse have chosen to enable that by 
default though, my Suse box has been RMA'd so I can't take a 
peek.  It may be that Paul will need to re-compile the Suse Kernel to 
enable him to use the drive.


On 17 Jul 2004 at 13:36, Tony Whitmore wrote:

Paul Taylor wrote:
> HI Chris and Thomas:
> 
> I had to go out so abandoned the project for a while.
> According to the suse hardware tool the drive is HPFS/NTFS and mounted as:
> /dev/sdb1  /media/usb-storage-Y33T7NYE:0:0:0p1
> With Knoppix I could write a test.txt file to it and create a directory easily 
> enough, although it wouldn't allow me to copy directories, now back in SuSE I 
> can't write to it or remove the directory.  I can see it though.
> With the mount comand Thomas:
> 
> 
> krell4:~ # mount -o gid=$GID,uid=$UID,defaults /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
>        or too many mounted file systems
> 
> The problem is that there is already some windows rap (with a silent c) on the 
> drive from school that I can't get rid of as they need ti.  If I could format 
> it I would be fine.
> Perhaps I should quite and look for another option for the soon to be lost 
> weekend?

NTFS write supprot is still judged experimental under Linux - the kernel 
supports read-only by default, for example. It is likely that SUSE only 
has read-only support availablem, whilst Knoppix being a "recovery CD" 
has the experimental support for NTFS writing. I'm not sure how you'd go 
about getting that functionality under SUSE, sorry.

HTH,

Tony

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Haywards Heath Sixth Form College
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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our 
friends. - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)



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