Saturday, March 19, 2011

[Solution] NTFS write support

There are a couple of removable hard drives, which my fiancée has formatted in Windows. So they have NTFS, and she wants write to them from her usual desktop. From Gentoo.
As it turned out, there is no support for writing NTFS in kernel. Weird, ha?
The solution is simple:
emerge ntfs3g
Don't forget to enable FUSE (CONFIG_FUSE_FS) in kernel. I have compiled it as module, not sure if ntfs3g will work with FUSE built in kernel. Just haven't checked.
I have also enabled NTFS in kernel (CONFIG_NTFS_FS). Again, not sure if it is necessary.

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