> From: Earnie Boyd > Is it possible to convert to NTFS? Not easily. The GoFlex Home is an appliance that doesn't seem to have a documented way for users to reformat the file system. But even a FAT file system supports FAT file attributes, so reformatting to NTFS shouldn't be necessary.
I have found a back door that gives me ssh access to the GoFlex Home. However, it appears the GoFlex is running Samba 3.0.x on Linux. I haven't looked into how Samba handles running on NTFS, so I don't know if that would help. Also, Seagate distributes source for the Linux NTFS-3g driver as part of their GNU Source Code distribution the server. So the disk might actually already be formatted using NTFS. I found the apparent smb.conf file the server uses, and it looks like it fails to enable Samba's support for FAT file attributes. If I don't get an official solution from Seagate, I may try modifying the smb.conf file and see if that fixes the issue. Sincerely, Matt Seitz -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
