Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb external drive

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Friday 06 July 2007 19:28, Albert Hopkins wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 18:04 +0000, James wrote:
> > I do not have NTFS enabled in the kernel. The wiki on ntfs3g said not
> > to:
> > http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g
>
> Likely because they mutually exclusive (i.e. both are drivers for the
> same filesystem).  Although to be honest I've not used either. I just
> know that they exit.
>
> [...]
>
> > DO tell how to get KDE to automagically make the drive available with
> > few keystrokes?   Many users will be sharing the drive and moving
> > it around quite often.
>
> Again, to be honest, I've never done it in KDE, although I assume it's
> just about similar as in Gnome (which is go to
> System/Preferences/Removable Drives and Media).  Just make sure you have
> the hald service running.

The wiki says not to use the FUSE module in the kernel, but to emerge it as a 
separate module.  I don't think it says anything about not including the 
normal ntfs driver (I'm sure I have it built in mine).
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Regards,
Mick

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