Problems with NTFS external USB drive in Kubuntu
Eberhard Roloff
tuxebi at gmx.de
Mon Dec 15 21:00:41 UTC 2008
Art Alexion wrote:
> With Ubuntu 8.04 eee, hal might complain that the file system is dirty. All I
> have to do is mount it manually with the force parameter and unmount it
> cleanly, and it works fine.
Either try with ntfsfix or better scan the filesystem in windows.
>
> At that point (after mounting and unmounting in Gnome), the Kubuntu hal will
> mount it, but the access is really, really slow.
>
> Any ideas on the difference?
>
> Would reformatting it ext3 help?
definitely. Since I am on ext3, ntfs problems are a thing of the past.
>
> I was thinking I'd create a really small fat32 partion and put the ext3 driver
> for windows there so that I could install it if I ever need it on a windows
> system.
samrt idea. Thanks much!
Eberhard
>
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