Topic: Newbe Question...adding ms ntfs drives to server...

[srlerchsr]

is it posible to add ms ntfs drives to server after the server software has been installed....have gig's of data on them that i do not wish to transfer.. if so is there a way to see them.....i am very limited to command line situations....

Thanks in advance....

Steve

[dsemuk]

SME doesn't support NTFS partitions without modifications.

My suggestion would be to put the drive with the NTFS partition into a Windows PC and drag the required data to the SME server using Windows shares, once the drive is clear you can add the extra drive to your SME server (do a search for howto), and format as a native Linux volume.

You may find at tool called Beyond Compare makes the moving of data very simple (http://www.scootersoftware.com)

Dave

[ruud]

Steve,

I've managed mounting my NTFS disk onto my SME server by installing the right NTFS kernel. You can find it on http://www.linux-ntfs.org.
The only thing is that you should mount the disk in read-only mode, because NTFS writes from Linux can cause corruptions.

Thing I did was:
- connect the disk after the installation of SME 7
- add mount point /media/disk2
- mount drive by mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk2 -t ntfs -r -o gid=www
- create an ibay Winshare
- mount the files section of this ibay to the 2nd disk by
mount --rbind /media/disk2 /home/e-smith/files/ibay/Winshare/files

Hope this give you some idea.
Again, if you want to write to the disk from within SME then don't use NTFS but backup you're data and make it an Linux (ext3) disk

Ruud

[vbmds]

Is this still the situation today, 12 months after the last post in this thread, that SME does not natively support NTFS partitions?

Are the steps outlined by ruud still the suggested method where reformatting NTFS drives is not an option - I've got ~1TB of data HDDs to plug in...and I simply can not afford to buy another TB of storage anytime soon.

[CharlieBrady]

Is this still the situation today, 12 months after the last post in this thread, that SME does not natively support NTFS partitions?

Yes.

[vbmds]

Thanks.

Anyone installed ntfs-3g and fuse? Has it been straightforward or required kernel work?

[mmccarn]

I tried to install fuse today from the dag repository.  It failed for lack of 'gcc' and 'kernel-devel' - so I think installing fuse on a virgin SME 7.1.3 system definitely takes kernel work.

[vbmds]

Ok; thanks...pity, I'm too much the newb to do a kernel recompile...think I'll have to see if I can find a differet distro that has ntfs support in some way...

[mmccarn]

Well - if you're going to try a new distro anyway you might as well try redoing your kernel...  You'll be fine, except you'll have to re-compile the 'fuse' kernel stuff any time there's a kernel update (I think), and your security won't be as good as on a standard SME install (as with any computer -- the more you install, the more potential security holes you'll have...):

Code: [Select]

/sbin/e-smith/db yum_repositories set dag repository \
Name 'Dag - EL4' \
BaseURL 'http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$basearch/dag' \
EnableGroups no \
GPGCheck yes \
GPGKey http://dag.wieers.com/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt \
Visible no \
Exclude freetype,htop,iptraf,rsync,syslinux \
status disabled

expand-template /etc/yum.conf

yum --enablerepo=dag install dkms-fuse

This will download and install dkms-fuse, cpp, dkms, gcc, glibc-devel, glibc-headers, glibc-kernheaders and kernel-devel...

I don't have a 'disposable' box available so I haven't answered 'Y' to yum's question, and can't tell you exactly what happens...

[vbmds]

Thanks for that, I'll give it a go as a look through distrowatch doesn't show anything that any better than SME for ntfs support, that I can see.

I'll have a go at your script once my data count is reset in 2 weeks...broadband at  dialup speeds really sux...