NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

Summary:

A newly released NTFS-3G package allows mounting NTFS as R/W. Is someone able to test this out?

NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

kevix 30 Apr 2008 05:20

A newly released NTFS-3G package allows mounting NTFS as R/W. Is someone able to test this out?

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html

I've been using FAT external drives, as I need to shuttle them back and forth with a windows system. FAT is flakey and NTFS is more robust in many cases.

I own two mybook world editions and have hacked them both and set up my own rsyncd on them to automatically sync with each other and it works beautifully. However, this was all with help of step by step instructions, mostly. I'm not a wiz at trying new things and I have no idea on how to start to get NTFS-3G to work with r/w on external NTFS drives. Is there some linux crackerjack out there who can give it a shot and post some instructions here on how to do it? I'd be very grateful!

Re: NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

Pineapple 30 Apr 2008 15:47

You don't need NTFS on NAS. You need NTFS in USB drive. MyBook is a file server so the client won't care what OS or file system its running.
Unless linux can access NTFS faster then EXT3 MyBook is using now, there is no reason to change it.

Unless you want it to access another USB external drive.
Try to find the NTFS package in optware and install it.

Last edited on 30 Apr 2008 15:50 by Pineapple Show more

Re: NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

kevix 30 Apr 2008 16:10

Yes, this is my exact situation. I have an external USB I'd like to have as NTFS, and without any modifications MyBook only can read it - no writing.

If the solution is to "try and find the NTFS package in optware and install it", I'd love to try. However, I'm no expert and I need a little more hand holding as to what exactly this means.

Thanks!

Re: NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

frederikk 30 Apr 2008 16:24

I'm interested in thaht too… but it seems that the package ntfs on optware is an old one, and only read NTFS. But the new version ( 2.0.0 ) can read and write, but it is not on optware… :(
There is a thread on this wiki on thaht, and you can even vote for thaht on the optware page ( the one for the linksys nslu2 )… try a search on ntfs to find this post.

Ciao
Fred

Re: NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

Pineapple 30 Apr 2008 16:53

Kevix: Look to the menu on you left and click on the Optware menu.

Frederikk: I think this is the package:
http://ipkgfind.nslu2-linux.org/result.phtml?query=ntfs&searchtype=package&section=

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Re: NTFS-3G Allows writing to NTFS drives

frederikk 01 May 2008 08:22

Yes, but this package is the old one 1.x.x. The new one 2.x.x is good, but the old is buggy ( this is what i read bout… ). So, it would be nice to have the 2.x.x one in optware for sure !
There are several posts on that… but i'm on several forums, and this one is the most unorganized i saw :(… the same questions are coming back again and again… so i agree it is hard to find an answer to a question :(

Ciao
Fred