On Friday 05 Dec 2014 16:11:26 Matti Nykyri wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2014, at 22:21, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> 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. -- Regards, Mick
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