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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] samba and window 7 NTFS
References: <20141204184935.GA14539@syscon7> <5480B2BB.5070300@thegeezer.net> <20141204202102.6bc7f651@digimed.co.uk>
From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@iki.fi>
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> On Dec 4, 2014, at 22:21, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 04 Dec 2014 19:15:07 +0000, thegeezer wrote:
>=20
>>> In order to format the USB stick to NTFS I need this option in kernel
>>> as well, am I correct?
>> yes
>=20
> 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 d=
irectories. If anything else is needed use ntfs3g.

--=20
-Matti=