On Lu, 06 sep 10, 20:59:00, Mark wrote: > On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 10:32:12 +0300 > > Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > You are probably missing the packages dosfstools and ntfsprogs. They are > > > both 'Suggested' by gparted, but not 'Recommended' because most > > > GNU/Linux users should not need them. > > > > I suppose that's debatable. I never touch Windows unless I have to, > > but I do often need to sneaker-net files between my Debian system and > > other Windows systems via USB flash drive, which therefore must be > > manipulated via dosfstools ... > > dosfstools, libfuse2, ntfs-3g, and ntfsprogs are pretty much essential to > have full Windows file compatibility for copying/sharing functions, at least > in my experience. Please note the use of "should" vs. "do" ;) and also, I was just trying to point out that interesting packages can be found in the Suggests of a package. I agree with the importance of ntfs-3g, especially since the kernel driver is not likely to replace it soon, but whether it's actually necessary to create any more NTFS partitions is indeed debatable :) Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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