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Zespris

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Registered: 2008-11-16

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Files disappear from HD

Hi,

I'm having a problem since I changed over from Ubuntu to Arch. Files in my external HD (ntfs) which have ñ in them just will not show up in the hard drive in Arch (but they will in Ubuntu and Windows). They just seem to disappear, and won't show up in the shell or through Konqueror. I'm using kdemod3, kernel 2.6.27. The HD mounts through kde, so I suppose it mounts through HAL.

¿Any ideas?

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

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Re: Files disappear from HD

From http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support:

Typical and very useful ntfs-3g options

    * users - allow anybody to (un)mount NTFS partitions provided that the ntfs-3g binary is set SUID root (Command: chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g). Take note that you have to use users instead of user.
    * noauto - do not automatically mount the partition at boot
    * uid - the decimal value of the owner of the files and directories in a particular NTFS partition
    * gid - the decimal value of the group of the files and directories in a particular NTFS partition
    * fmask - the octal value of the bitmask of the file permissions
    * dmask - the octal value of the bitmask of the directory permissions
    * locale - often required to make files with national characters visible

The last line: * locale - often required to make files with national characters visible

Last edited by Xyne (2009-01-11 11:57:01)

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Zespris

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Registered: 2008-11-16

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Re: Files disappear from HD

Yes, but I don't have any data for it in fstab, because it mounts automatically. Should I add a line or is there another way?