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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

kernel upgrade (2.6.25) -> ntfs localization failure -> wiki ?

Hi, everybody,

After today's upgrade to kernel 2.6.25 I discovered, among some pleasant surprises, an unpleasant one: my USB hard drive formatted in NTFS (auto)mounts incorrectly, so I can't see file names with non-english characters. Hardly a surprise at all, because once it took some tweaking to make it work.

The problem I'm experiencing now is sort of embarrassing. First, the old remedy doesn't seem to work. I have the how-to on paper only, copied once by hand into a real notebook from the Wiki . The embarrassing part is that I can't find the relevant part of the Wiki. I've got good search material, but it seems to be useless.

From my paper notebook (a lot to search with, isn't it?):

KDE locale issue
# rm /sbin/mount/ntfs-3g
...
#!/bin/bash
/bin/ntfs-3g $1 $2 -o locale en_US.UTF-8
...
# chmod +x /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g
...

These instructions work no longer, which is also no great surprise, but I can't find anything like that in the Wiki, which is frustrating. When I set a search string like "mount.ntfs-3g" the Wiki's search engine treats it more or less like two separate searches by "mount" and "ntfs-3g" and presents me with a lot of irrelevant garbage.

So I've got two questions :

(1) How to manage localization of NTFS partitions while automounting (kernel 2.6.25, KDEmod, HAL)?

(2) How to search Wiki?

Leigh

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From: USA

Registered: 2004-06-25

Posts: 533

Re: kernel upgrade (2.6.25) -> ntfs localization failure -> wiki ?

I don't know if this will help,(I don't use any NTFS partitions) but have you tried using ntfs-config in aur?
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8178

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: kernel upgrade (2.6.25) -> ntfs localization failure -> wiki ?

Thanks, Leigh, but this isn't about my problem.

j.roszk

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From: Poznan/Poland

Registered: 2008-05-22

Posts: 29

Website

Re: kernel upgrade (2.6.25) -> ntfs localization failure -> wiki ?

(2) Here's the wiki page. Keywords: ntfs locale.

TreeMinds

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Registered: 2007-09-01

Posts: 35

Re: kernel upgrade (2.6.25) -> ntfs localization failure -> wiki ?

In order to see files in Greek made in windows and mounted by ntfs-3g,
and not to change the LOCALE=en_US.utf8 in rc.conf I had to do this:

locale=greek #at ntfs-3g line in /etc/fstab and
export LC_CTYPE=greek #in ~/.bashrc

change greek in what u want to and see what happens.

Last edited by TreeMinds (2008-05-26 09:42:52)