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1) is it safe to use a mounted ntfs partition under linux (data loss)
2) when i try to mount a ntfs partition with "mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 -t ntfs" i get "wrong filesystem type, bad option, bad superblock ..."
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1) is it safe to use a mounted ntfs partition under linux (data loss)
2) when i try to mount a ntfs partition with "mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 -t ntfs" i get "wrong filesystem type, bad option, bad superblock ..."
1. Define use, iirc ntfs support is crappy under linux still, I'd say it's safe to mount and read from it, I wouldn't write to it, though.
2. Do mount -t ntfs /dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 instead.
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as I lacked the time to make it short...
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Write support is supposed to be stable as they rewrote the driver some time ago - however, with the current native linux driver you can only overwrite files without changing size.
You can also give captive ntfs a shot - then you can use microsofts own NTFS drivers in linux... Good luck, I tried setting it up on a friends box without any luck.
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1) use ntfs-3g. It has full support for reading and writing. You data should be as safe with this driver.
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I am using ntfs-3g for some time on a Zenwalk system without problems.
This is the way I did this:
- built and installed fuse (ntfs-3g depends on it)
- then build and installed ntfs-3g-20070714-BETA
- add to /etc/fstab: /dev/sdc1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
- mkdir /mnt/ntfs
- now you can mount the drive /dev/sdc1 as /mnt/ntfs with full write-support
I think it should work the same way on Arch.
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ok mounting works now...
anyone on my first hda i got only 2 partitions C: and D:.
but there are hda1 hda2 and hda5.
ist the thirst hd here perhaps the 8 mb remaining space that remained from partitioning?
and is it possible to rename hda5 so that it becomes hda3?
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ok mounting works now...
anyone on my first hda i got only 2 partitions C: and D:.
but there are hda1 hda2 and hda5.
ist the thirst hd here perhaps the 8 mb remaining space that remained from partitioning?
and is it possible to rename hda5 so that it becomes hda3?
Not as I'm aware of as it's a logical partition and not a primary...
Primary partition - harddrives can have up to 4 partitions, called primary partitions - hda1-hda4
Extended partition - a primary partition that can contain other partitions so that you can get around the limit of 4
Logical partition - a partition contained within an extended partition, hda5 and above
So you probably have 1 normal primary partition and 1 extended partition that contains 1 logical partition. To find out which partition is what, use a "fdisk -l /dev/hda" as root.
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