<html><body>On 23 February 2011 09:40, Stephen Williams <sdp.williams@btinternet.com> wrote:<br />> I've used ntfs-3g with Gentoo for some time and it works very well. Gentoo<br />> includes the necessary udev rules for automounting ntfs partitions with<br />> ntfs-3g as well, so it all works pretty much out of the box (as much as<br />> anything Gentoo can be said to be "out of the box"). It has also been<br />> completely reliable - more so than Windows 7 is.<br /><br />Thanks Steve! Haven't seen you in a while.<br /><br />I looked up ntfs-3g but have not drawn any conclusions.<br /><br />I need this disk to backup files from Windows XP and then be able to access and edit them in the future from both Windows XP and Debian.<br /><br />To build my NTFS file system I ran the command:<br /><br /># mkntfs -L "XP" "/dev/sdf1"<br /><br />What command would you have run to get ntfs-3g?<br /><br />I don't mind rebuilding the file system.<br /><br /><br />
Best Regards,<br />Fay<br />East Grinstead Linux User Group<br />www.eglug.org.uk<br /><br /></body></html>