Greetings, Matt Seitz! >> 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. I strictly don't recommend using NTFS under Linux, especially not for file sharing. There's a chance to encounter spectacular issues, that not easily explained. Notable drop/fluctuation in disc performance is the least of them. > 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. You don't need to guess. Check mount output, or "fdisk -l" if your disks partitioned using MBR. (With GPT it might be a bit tricky...) > 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. testparm -sv | grep dos would be interesting to see, but please send it off-list. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 06.07.2012, <05:29> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
