RE: Automounting an NTFS partition

2003-01-08 Thread Hugh A.J. Kennedy
Putting an /etc/fstab entry for an ntfs system works fine as long as you have enabled ntfs file system support in your kernel. However, read-only is the default. Writeable ntfs partitions under Linux still isn't recommended. If you want to interchange frequently, keep a vfat (FAT32) partition for c

fc-cache and NT Font weirdness..

2003-01-13 Thread Hugh A.J. Kennedy
I have a multiboot notebook with Win98/Win2K and RH 8.0 Linux. The Win98 partition and the 2K partition (FAT and NTFS respectively) are mounted when RH8.0 boots. I have a soft link going from /usr/share/local/fonts to /mnt/C/WINDOWS/FONTS for each ttf font and this works fine and fc-cache sees ever

RE: fc-cache and NT Font weirdness..

2003-01-13 Thread Hugh A.J. Kennedy
I wouldn't be able to mount the file system or link to it without a recompile, sorry I thought that was obvious from by description. I don't want to enable write though as I know that there are still some issues though with writes to an NTFS filesystem so I can't just link the directory. I must lin