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Since I had so many problems initially with PCManFM,
the LAST thing I wanted to do was turn it loose in
my hard drive, potentially poisoning my Win7 or two
other partitions.
I may become braver, now that PCManFM is behaving more
sanely, to access the rest of my laptop. I'm presuming
you've had no bad experineces in the ntfs world,
have you? Thanks.
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Originally Posted by
utu
@evenso
I may become braver, now that PCManFM is behaving more
sanely, to access the rest of my laptop. I'm presuming
you've had no bad experineces in the ntfs world,
have you? Thanks.
Not so sure.
I am installed to a thumb drive and I mount the HD partitions, ntfs & ext3. When I posted above, the drive was plugged into a secondary computer. The primary computer that the thumb drive resides on is not yielding such perfect results.
Don't know why, maybe a different version of ntfs. This is Vista, the others are XP.
I've yet to upgrade (an apparent downgrade of sorts in Knoppix) to a proper ntfs-3g package.
The up-to-date ntfs-3g package is pretty safe and, in itself, shouldn't harm your ntfs partitions as far as I know (which isn't as far as a "real" techie).
The single problem on this computer with PCManFM is automatic mounting of ntfs partitions, which I want.
I am a little stalled on upgrades because I had some packages that didn't install and took a while to back out of. Not the least of which were syslinux and syslinux-common(!). Nothing was broken there, but installs failed.
So I am nursing it one package at a time, when I get time.
I may get a better survey of things around Tuesday.
Will post developments.
Meanwhile, there is always manual mounts and, if you distrust PCManFM, midnight commander, which even has skins or themes or something nowadays.
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I don't think my problem mounting ntfs partitions is with pcmanfm. When I created a persistent image, Knoppix considerately included all the ntfs partitions on my /etc/fstab . However, I still must mount them manually with I don't see any problem with pcmanfm, other than an aggravating upgrade maybe.
I've been reading and writing from Linux to ntfs partions routinely with ntfs-3g without issue for two years now. However, I am not an expert, I don't use Windows 7 which I think has a minor upgrade of ntfs, and Harry Kuhman just warned against it here as regards system wide data recovery. He may know something I don't:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/threads...l=1#post121576
So I guess I encourage you to stay save but think about trying it.
Post if you find a resolution to auto-mounting ntfs partitions.
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Kind Regards,
Freeman
Last edited by evenso; 08-18-2010 at 08:28 AM.
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