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Title: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: elg3ne on November 04, 2009, 03:16:45 PM

i have 1tb western digital external drive & i want to backup my files on it...

does 7.4 support ntfs file system?

i already read some posts here but still did not find any concrete idea in regards on mounting ntfs file system.

thanks

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: CharlieBrady on November 04, 2009, 03:20:47 PM

No.

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: janet on November 04, 2009, 05:32:29 PM

elg3ne

Also see
http://wiki.contribs.org/USBDisks

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: shawnbishop on November 07, 2009, 07:13:21 AM

You can recompile the kernel with the ntfs-3g code to allow mounting of the ntfs drives, I will look for my notes..

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: Stefano on November 07, 2009, 09:03:57 AM

Quote

You can recompile the kernel with the ntfs-3g code to allow mounting of the ntfs drives, I will look for my notes..

really a bad idea IMHO

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: shawnbishop on November 07, 2009, 05:13:52 PM

Hi Stefano, why would it be a bad idea..?

I have had to recompile Kernels for Network cards as well that were not by default supported, of course you have to be careful during updates...

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: CharlieBrady on November 07, 2009, 07:18:54 PM

Quote from: shawnbishop on November 07, 2009, 05:13:52 PM

I have had to recompile Kernels for Network cards as well that were not by default supported, of course you have to be careful during updates...

Exactly. Since NTFS is avoidable, avoiding NTFS is a better (and easier) way to go.

Title: Re: does 7.4 support ntfs?
Post by: axessit on November 09, 2009, 09:45:49 PM

If it's an external (I assume USB) drive, I would reformat it as Charlie says - then you don't run into problems long term.

Sounds like a huge drive, what are you planning to use it for ? If you want to use it as a complete SME backup, then if you are looking at disaster recovery, you need a device that can be supported by the re-install process - ie after rebuilding a new box/HDD and installing SME on clean HDD, you would want to use the restore from backup option when prompted on the first boot of the new machine.

Unless you want to read the disk on a windose machine and don't like using explore2FS.