Daniel L. Miller said on Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 03:03:10PM -0700: > >From this sentence, I believe that you are mounting an NTFS partition on > >your Linux box, and are trying to get your data off of it that way. > > > >This probably won't work; the NTFS driver in kernel 2.4 is experimental, and > >for a reason; it really isn't stable. > > > I thought the "old" NTFS driver in the 2.4 for read-only access was reliable. > Or do I need to try to install the "new" NTFS driver. I don't belive that any of the prior to 2.5 NTFS stuff is reliable. I haven't tried the new driver, but there is apparently a patch for 2.4 that you could download and build a custom kernel with, for this purpose. However, given that it might not work, I suspect that you're better off using Windows to extract your data. > Worst case, I may pursue that. But I REALLY don't want to - there should be > an easy, simple, reliable Debian Linux solution - right? Why would you expect Debian to work easily with a closed source very complex filesystem that has little documentation? Debian's badass, but it's not magic. M
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