[Dclug] [Novalug] NTFS on Linux?

[Maxwell Spangler]

On Wed, 2009-05-06 at 01:58 -0400, Maxwell Spangler wrote:
> I've just purchased a pair of external 500G drives and would like to use
> both to make large sets of data available between Linux/Fedora10 and
> WindowsXP.
> 
> I'd like to know where NTFS support stands on Linux in real world
> conditions.  Can anyone who has been using NTFS on Linux in similar
> situations provide any comments about their experiences?
> 
> ps. FAT32 would be the traditional solution to this but many of my
> filenames contain characters FAT32 doesn't like, so that is one of a few
> problems I'd like to avoid with NTFS.

My initial attempt to us NTFS haven't worked either.  Seems like NTFS
has the same problems as FAT32 with fancy characters.  So I'll dig some
more, but out of the box it isn't working..

cp: cannot create regular file `/media/FreeAgent Drive/T/Tete/L\'air de
rien/13 - Ais\332.mp3': Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide
character

cp on the command line has this problem and GNOME's Nautilus file
manager produces the same problem.

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Maxwell Spangler