Am Fri, 5 Dec 2014 23:16:37 +0000 schrieb Mick : > On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:11:26 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > > On Dec 4, 2014, at 22:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:15:07 +0000, thegeezer wrote: > > >>> In order to format the USB stick to NTFS I need this option in kernel > > >>> as well, am I correct? > > >> > > >> yes > > > > > > You're probably better off not using the in-kernel NTFS and using ntfs-3g > > > instead, which also includes mkfs.ntfs. You can't format a filesystem > > > with just a kernel driver. > > > > Same opinoin here. The in-kernel driver is only good for reading files and > > directories. If anything else is needed use ntfs3g. > > This is right, ntfs-3g is a safe way of accessing NTFS from Linux. > > Just mentioned in passing that the ntfs in-kernel driver is really good for > recovering corrupted NTFS partitions. I tried the same with ntfs-3g and it > couldn't read it. The kernel driver had no problem doing so. YMMV. In that vein: a couple of years ago I rescued data from a neighbours Windows 7 drive with ddrescue and, because ddrescue was "stuck" at the last 0.x percent, ntfsck, which was part of the ntfsprogs package at the time, and (I think) was already being developed as part of ntfs3g. I was pleasantly surprised that it worked. -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup