Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-02 Thread David Wright
On Wed 02 Feb 2022 at 11:16:18 (+0100), Yvan Masson wrote: > > > > > > Slightly off-topic question: using pre-5.15 kernel, how can I > > > > > mount a > > > > > partition with kernel driver? > > > > > > > > You can't, the NTFS kernel driver first appeared in Linux 5.15. > > > > > > >  From what

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-02 Thread Yvan Masson
Slightly off-topic question: using pre-5.15 kernel, how can I mount a partition with kernel driver? You can't, the NTFS kernel driver first appeared in Linux 5.15.  From what I understand, there was a read-only driver before 5.15: - see for example https://superuser.com/questions/139452/ker

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-01 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 17:56 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > > Le 01/02/2022 à 14:24, Tixy a écrit : > > On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 13:39 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > Le 31/01/2022 à 18:02, Christian Britz a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > > > On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > > > > >

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-01 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 01/02/2022 à 14:24, Tixy a écrit : On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 13:39 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Le 31/01/2022 à 18:02, Christian Britz a écrit : On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testi

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-01 Thread Tixy
On Tue, 2022-02-01 at 13:39 +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Le 31/01/2022 à 18:02, Christian Britz a écrit : > > > > > > On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > > > > > Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the > > > kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-02-01 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 31/01/2022 à 18:02, Christian Britz a écrit : On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks And

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Christian Britz
On 2022-01-31 11:43 UTC+0100, Yvan Masson wrote: > Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the > kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to > mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for > confirming what I supposed): this

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 31/01/2022 à 16:19, Michael Stone a écrit : On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (th

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 11:43:10AM +0100, Yvan Masson wrote: Thanks for the links, I missed that NTF3 was already included in the kernel I use (from Debian testing). So in my case ntfs3g is able to mount a rescued partition, while NTFS3 is not (thanks Andrei for confirming what I supposed): thi

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-31 Thread Yvan Masson
Le 28/01/2022 à 17:51, David Wright a écrit : On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 11:34:44 (+0100), Yvan Masson wrote: I had to recover a NTFS partition from a broken drive (I used GNU ddrescue with a domain log file generated by partclone), so I now have a file "recovered_partition.img": $ file recovered_

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread David Wright
On Fri 28 Jan 2022 at 11:34:44 (+0100), Yvan Masson wrote: > > I had to recover a NTFS partition from a broken drive (I used GNU > ddrescue with a domain log file generated by partclone), so I now have > a file "recovered_partition.img": > > $ file recovered_partition.img > recovered_partition.im

Re: "mount -t ntfs" vs "mount.ntfs" ?

2022-01-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 28 ian 22, 11:34:44, Yvan Masson wrote: > > Could it be because `mount` uses kernel driver and `mount.ntfs` uses > ntfs-3g, and that the latter has better "quality" even for read-only? (Note > that this sentence is a complete guess) Try 'ls -l /sbin/mount.ntfs' ;) Kind regards, Andrei --