On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 at 11:20am, MHR wrote > On Jan 3, 2008 9:34 AM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: >> >> The drive is formatted NTFS, which is pretty much useless under Linux. > > Forgive me, but this is simply not true. There is a fully functional NTFS > module available for read-write support in CentOS 5 (if you build your own > kernel), and I haven't actually looked at the CentOSplus kernel yet. 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. It may not be completely useless overall, but it is certainly useless ot the OP. -- Joshua Baker-LePain QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin UCSF