Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-04 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
 nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote:

 and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g...

 Indeed, this has to be looked into.

 Rod, could you show us the output from:

 rpm -qa kmod\*

 and

 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 (if this command gives you a list of your current directory, then
 please don't post the output)

Beware that even when the ntfs kernel module is loaded, it doesn't mean 
that you are not using ntfs-3g. Especially if you are using automounting 
it might still pick ntfs-3g as mount.ntfs ships with ntfs-3g (or when 
using gnome even gnome-vfs2-ntfs) over kmod-ntfs.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-04 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Dag Wieers d...@wieers.com wrote:
 On Tue, 3 Nov 2009, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 rpm -qa kmod\*

 and

 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 (if this command gives you a list of your current directory, then
 please don't post the output)

 Beware that even when the ntfs kernel module is loaded, it doesn't mean
 that you are not using ntfs-3g. Especially if you are using automounting
 it might still pick ntfs-3g as mount.ntfs ships with ntfs-3g (or when
 using gnome even gnome-vfs2-ntfs) over kmod-ntfs.

Ah, thanks for pointing that out.

locate ntfs.ko

and

modprobe ntfs ; modinfo ntfs

might provide more useful info.

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

 On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should
 move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now
 all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading
 this mailing list on a regular basis.

 http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists

 What do you think?

 I think that I just signed up for the ELRepo mailing list.  I will post
 my last message there ( unless you think more of the background is
 useful ) and see what turns up.

 Adding the link to your original post of this thread will help:

 http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084896.html

This is just a followup post for those who would like to know how this
conversation developed. The details are in this ELRepo mailing list
thread:

http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-November/000102.html

In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is
quite limited.  Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel
Kconfig file:

The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot
be written to.

Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook
 This is just a followup post for those who would like to know how this
 conversation developed. The details are in this ELRepo mailing list
 thread:

 http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-November/000102.html

 In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is
 quite limited.  Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel
 Kconfig file:

 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
 so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot
 be written to.

 Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g.

 Akemi


I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel
-2.6.18-164.2.1.el5
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote:

 In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is
 quite limited.  Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel
 Kconfig file:

 The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
 changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
 renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
 so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot
 be written to.

 Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g.

 I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel
 -2.6.18-164.2.1.el5

Using the in-kernel ntfs module (kmod-ntfs) ?

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote:

  In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is
  quite limited.  Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel
  Kconfig file:
 
  The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
  changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
  renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
  so you may find that some very small files (500 bytes or so) cannot
  be written to.
 
  Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g.

  I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel
  -2.6.18-164.2.1.el5

 Using the in-kernel ntfs module (kmod-ntfs) ?

 Akemi

Yes.
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rod Rook rod.r...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:

  I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel
  -2.6.18-164.2.1.el5

 Using the in-kernel ntfs module (kmod-ntfs) ?

 Yes.

Interesting (and curious).  That means that the description in the
Kconfig file is obsolete. Thanks for your input.

My attempt to write to NTFS produced a permission denied message.
This needs more investigation.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Rod Rook


 Interesting (and curious).  That means that the description in the
 Kconfig file is obsolete. Thanks for your input.

 My attempt to write to NTFS produced a permission denied message.
 This needs more investigation.

 Akemi


You could have saved lots of time and efforts if you cared to read the
directions as given in CentOS Wiki ( (
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS) ) as I had suggested in this
thread.
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
Rod Rook wrote:
 
 Interesting (and curious).  That means that the description in the
 Kconfig file is obsolete. Thanks for your input.
 
 My attempt to write to NTFS produced a permission denied message.
 This needs more investigation.
 
 Akemi
 
 
 You could have saved lots of time and efforts if you cared to read the 
 directions as given in CentOS Wiki ( 
 (http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS) ) as I had suggested in this 
 thread. 
 

funny.
Rod, that wiki page ends with:
Written and currently maintained by AkemiYagi. Comments/improvement 
welcome.
I guess the Akemi you replied to had read that page :-D .
and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g...
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote:

 funny.
 Rod, that wiki page ends with:
 Written and currently maintained by AkemiYagi. Comments/improvement
 welcome.
 I guess the Akemi you replied to had read that page :-D .
 and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g...

Not only I have read it but I actually created that wiki article... :-D

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-03 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amy...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 7:44 AM, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg
 nicolas.thierry-m...@imag.fr wrote:

 and I suspect you are actually using ntfs-3g...

Indeed, this has to be looked into.

Rod, could you show us the output from:

rpm -qa kmod\*

and

ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 (if this command gives you a list of your current directory, then
please don't post the output)

Thanks,

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-02 Thread Curt Mills
On Sat, 31 Oct 2009, Ron Loftin wrote:

 ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
 with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
 mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
 filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me to
 think that I'm missing something here.

Stupid question:  BEFORE you mount, what are the permissions on the
mount point?  Those permissions can affect what you can do with the
mounted filesystem.

Once you mount the filesystem it's awfully hard to figure out what
the problem is because the original mount point permissions are
hidden...

That one has gotten me before, but a wiser SA than myself warned me
before I ever came across it, so I didn't spin my wheels _too_ long
looking for the problem!  That would have been a real hair-puller
otherwise.

I don't know whether current Unix/Linux systems behave in the same
manner, but SunOS/Solaris used to.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

  I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
  version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
  version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
  ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
  with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
  mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
  filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me
  to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
  been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
  would be welcome.

 but I'm trying to evaluate the kmod-ntfs package from ELrepo.org.  There
 seems to be something I'm not understanding about this approach, or I'm
 not finding the correct documentation for it.

Could you show us the output returned by:

uname -mr
ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
 
   I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
   version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
   version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
   ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
   with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
   mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
   filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me
   to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
   been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
   would be welcome.
 
  but I'm trying to evaluate the kmod-ntfs package from ELrepo.org.  There
  seems to be something I'm not understanding about this approach, or I'm
  not finding the correct documentation for it.
 
 Could you show us the output returned by:
 
 uname -mr
 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`
 

uname -mr
2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 i686

ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 31
19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
- /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 31
19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
- /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko

ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 57464 Sep 30
15:26 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko

Be careful of the line wrapping, and thanks for the help.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

 On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 Could you show us the output returned by:

 uname -mr
 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`

 uname -mr
 2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 i686

 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     46 Oct 31
 19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 - /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     46 Oct 31
 19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 - /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko

Something is wrong here.  You are missing
/lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are
pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking?

 ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`
 -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 57464 Sep 30
 15:26 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko

This one is as expected.  Just fine.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:09 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
 
  On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 14:49 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 
  Could you show us the output returned by:
 
  uname -mr
  ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
  ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`
 
  uname -mr
  2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 i686
 
  ls -l `find /lib/modules -name ntfs.ko`
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 31
  19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
  - /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 46 Oct 31
  19:45 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.1.13.el5/weak-updates/ntfs/ntfs.ko
  - /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 
 Something is wrong here.  You are missing
 /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are
 pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking?

It's there.  I must have missed it with my cut-and-paste before.

( Side note:  I can't stand all that color-coding with the ls command,
so I disable it.  That's just my prejudice from growing up with UNIX in
the '80s and '90s on REAL monochrome terminals. ;)

ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235684 Oct  9
13:00 /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko

 
  ls -l `find /lib/modules -name fuse.ko`
  -rwxr--r-- 1 root root 57464 Sep 30
  15:26 /lib/modules/2.6.18-164.2.1.el5/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko
 
 This one is as expected.  Just fine.
 
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

 On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 Something is wrong here.  You are missing
 /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are
 pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking?

 It's there.  I must have missed it with my cut-and-paste before.

 ( Side note:  I can't stand all that color-coding with the ls command,
 so I disable it.  That's just my prejudice from growing up with UNIX in
 the '80s and '90s on REAL monochrome terminals. ;)

I fully understand (similar generation?!).

 ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235684 Oct  9
 13:00 /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko

Alright. Then as far as installation of the modules are concerned,
there does not seem to be a problem.  So, just for a confirmation,
'modprobe ntfs' and 'modprobe fuse' run without any errors and lsmod
shows both modules loaded?

If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from
kmod-ntfs works, too.  However, they are not the same.  The latter was
built from the ntfs code in CentOS 5.3 (which was originally broken).
I believe it worked after a patch was applied and this was tested by
CentOS QA members.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:41 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
 
  On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 15:20 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 
  Something is wrong here.  You are missing
  /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko that the symlinks are
  pointing to.  Are those symlinks red-blinking?
 
  It's there.  I must have missed it with my cut-and-paste before.
 
  ( Side note:  I can't stand all that color-coding with the ls command,
  so I disable it.  That's just my prejudice from growing up with UNIX in
  the '80s and '90s on REAL monochrome terminals. ;)
 
 I fully understand (similar generation?!).
 
  ls -l /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 235684 Oct  9
  13:00 /lib/modules/2.6.18-128.el5/extra/ntfs/ntfs.ko
 
 Alright. Then as far as installation of the modules are concerned,
 there does not seem to be a problem.  So, just for a confirmation,
 'modprobe ntfs' and 'modprobe fuse' run without any errors and lsmod
 shows both modules loaded?

Seems to work.  Both modprobe commands run with no error, and lsmod
shows this:

lsmod | egrep 'fuse|ntfs'
fuse   49237  0 
ntfs  196760  0 

 
 If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from
 kmod-ntfs works, too.  

That's what I thought.  However, when I mount a partition created with
Windoze 2000, I can read files and directories, but not create or modify
anything.  Here's the actual scenario ( all commands performed as root):

# dmesg | tail
FS-Cache: Loaded
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 9
PCI: setting IRQ 9 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt :00:01.0[A] - Link [LNKA] - GSI 9 (level, low)
- IRQ 9
[drm] Initialized i810 1.4.0 20030605 on minor 0
[drm] Using v1.4 init.
NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
fuse init (API version 7.10)
NTFS volume version 3.0.

# fdisk -l /dev/hda

Disk /dev/hda: 8700 MB, 8700346368 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1057 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot  Start End  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *   1 522 4192933+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 5231056 4289355f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 523 783 20964517  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 7841056 2192841b  W95 FAT32

# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
( no error returned )

# mount
/dev/hdb1 on / type ext3 (rw,nodev)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb3 on /var type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hdb2 on /tmp type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt type ntfs (rw)

Note the last line claims that hda5 is mounted with type ntfs and
rw.

# /bin/ls -la /mnt
total 1048592
drwx--  1 root root   4096 Oct 31 22:47 .
drwxr-xr-x 26 root root   4096 Nov  1 19:05 ..
-rw---  1 root root 1073741824 Oct 31 22:43 pagefile.sys
drwx--  1 root root  0 Feb  2  2006 RECYCLER
drwx--  1 root root  0 Oct 31 21:31 spool
drwx--  1 root root  0 Jan 24  2006 System Volume
Information
drwx--  1 root root   4096 Oct 31 22:50 tmp

# touch /mnt/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/testfile': Permission denied
# touch /mnt/tmp/testfile
touch: cannot touch `/mnt/tmp/testfile': Permission denied

So, what am I missing, and where should I look ?

 However, they are not the same.  The latter was
 built from the ntfs code in CentOS 5.3 (which was originally broken).
 I believe it worked after a patch was applied and this was tested by
 CentOS QA members.
 
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

 If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from
 kmod-ntfs works, too.

 That's what I thought.  However, when I mount a partition created with
 Windoze 2000, I can read files and directories, but not create or modify
 anything.  Here's the actual scenario ( all commands performed as root):

(big snip)

 So, what am I missing, and where should I look ?

Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should
move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now
all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading
this mailing list on a regular basis.

http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists

What do you think?

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Ron Loftin

On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
 On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:
 
  If ntfs-3g is working for you, I would expect the ntfs module from
  kmod-ntfs works, too.
 
  That's what I thought.  However, when I mount a partition created with
  Windoze 2000, I can read files and directories, but not create or modify
  anything.  Here's the actual scenario ( all commands performed as root):
 
 (big snip)
 
  So, what am I missing, and where should I look ?
 
 Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should
 move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now
 all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading
 this mailing list on a regular basis.
 
 http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists
 
 What do you think?

I think that I just signed up for the ELRepo mailing list.  I will post
my last message there ( unless you think more of the background is
useful ) and see what turns up.

 
 Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-11-01 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:

 On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:

 Looks like you are doing everything just fine.  Perhaps, we should
 move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now
 all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading
 this mailing list on a regular basis.

 http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists

 What do you think?

 I think that I just signed up for the ELRepo mailing list.  I will post
 my last message there ( unless you think more of the background is
 useful ) and see what turns up.

Adding the link to your original post of this thread will help:

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084896.html

Akemi
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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Yves Bellefeuille
On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote:

 I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
 version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
 version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
 ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
 with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
 mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
 filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me
 to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
 been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
 would be welcome.

Try using mount -t ntfs-3g rather than mount -t ntfs. You may have 
to install fuse-ntfs-3g.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Ron Loftin

On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:39 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
 On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote:
 
  I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
  version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
  version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
  ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
  with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
  mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
  filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me
  to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
  been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
  would be welcome.
 
 Try using mount -t ntfs-3g rather than mount -t ntfs. You may have 
 to install fuse-ntfs-3g.
 

I think that you have misunderstood my question.  I know how to do it
with the packages from RPMforge ( which is where I get fuse-ntfs-3g )
but I'm trying to evaluate the kmod-ntfs package from ELrepo.org.  There
seems to be something I'm not understanding about this approach, or I'm
not finding the correct documentation for it.

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Re: [CentOS] NTFS and elrepo

2009-10-31 Thread Rod Rook
On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 11:14 PM, Ron Loftin relof...@twcny.rr.com wrote:


 On Sat, 2009-10-31 at 23:39 -0400, Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
  On Saturday 31 October 2009 20:12, Ron Loftin wrote:
 
   I have here a box which I dual-boot between CentOS 5.4 and an older
   version of that other OS that I'm using to check out the ELrepo
   version of kmod-ntfs.  After installing as per the directions on the
   ELrepo site, I can mount an NTFS filesystem, and when I type mount
   with no options the output tells me that the target filesystem is
   mounted read-write.  However, when I try to create a file on that
   filesystem as root, I get a Permission denied error, which leads me
   to think that I'm missing something here.  So far, Google has not
   been very helpful here, so if anyone can shine some light on this, it
   would be welcome.
 
  Try using mount -t ntfs-3g rather than mount -t ntfs. You may have
  to install fuse-ntfs-3g.
 

 I think that you have misunderstood my question.  I know how to do it
 with the packages from RPMforge ( which is where I get fuse-ntfs-3g )
 but I'm trying to evaluate the kmod-ntfs package from ELrepo.org.  There
 seems to be something I'm not understanding about this approach, or I'm
 not finding the correct documentation for it.

 This statement is a direct quote from CentOS Wiki (
http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/NTFS)

[image: !] As of CentOS 5.4 (kernel 2.6.18-164 or newer), the fuse kernel
module is included in the kernel itself. Therefore, dkms and dkms-fuse are
no longer required. If you have previously installed dkms-fuse, please *
uninstall* it by a *yum remove dkms-fuse* command.
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