[CentOS] mounting & partitioning Seagate FreeAgent external HD

John Bowden j-alan at btconnect.com
Sun Jan 6 17:36:42 UTC 2008


On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:19:28 MHR wrote:
> On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote:
> > Erm, from the kernel documentation -- "The driver currently supports
> > read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and
> > very limited, but safe, write support" and "The biggest limitation at
> > present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted."  Also,
> > AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way.
>
> Good point.
>
> I was using the NTFS module, with write support, in CentOS 4.4, before I
> converted all my drives to ext3, but I don't recall if I ever tried to
> create a directory on the NTFS partitions.
>
> mhr

Have a look at NTFS-3G. I have been using it for about two years now on my MDV 
boxes, without any problems reading and writing to a 60Gb laptop drive in a 
usb external enclosure. I will be installing it on my CentOS 5.0 box when I 
get the time to finish setting it up. Soon I hope ! 

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