[Bug 250705] Re: Please backport ntfs-3g

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Shirish: NTFS-3G is a user space driver. It can't hang the system. Only buggy kernels can. Nevertheless your experience is very unique and it sounds to be a hardware problem. It's also possible that Ubuntu patched the driver and something went terrible wrong. But then, much more people would repo

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Florian Linux NTFS development claims 100% NTFS compatibility. If you think otherwise then please describe here what your problems are because we very much would like to know and fix it if it's justified. Please note, Ubuntu uses an extremely old version of the driver which indeed has many problem

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Things don't work the way you think. They are much, much more complex. E.g. a full NTFS driver implementation requires more than 150 person years work. Not only the file data but ALL relevant metadata must be on the disk as well. If only a few metadata bytes are missing then one may "lose" everyth

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
No software solution will help because the (disk) caches will lie about the data. It's not possible to build a reliable (predictable) system on unreliable hardware. People want the cheapest and fastest disks => disk manufacturers provide them but data unreliability is the real price. The faster med

[Bug 303610] Re: file move causes data loss if interrupted due to system crash

2008-12-02 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's mathematically not possible, not statistically. If Windows were safe Microsoft wouldn't have documented the same data loss problem: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/940508 They talk about not unmounted devices which is the same as suddenly removing them or power outage. Moreover the severity

[Bug 322751] Re: Not mounting drives unsafely removed in windows is an annoying default

2009-01-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Joseph: This is a long and complex story. I make it short. I've seen many thousands related comments, suggestions, arguments in the last many years but yours was the first one which had a good point (case 3). Theoretically you're not right but practically you are: the damage was already done when t

[Bug 368134] Re: nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption

2009-05-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What NTFS-3G does is actually detects and reports that something has corrupted two files. The "2.6.28-11 causes massive data corruption with ICH8/ICH9 on 64 bits installations" bug is indeed a very good candidate to be the real culprit. Data and file system corruptions almost exclusively origin fr

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-04-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Ubuntu doesn't compile with the internal FUSE library which is used to ensure and certify NTFS-3G quality. The external FUSE library has several issues which are fixed only in the FUSE CVS. -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You received this bug notification be

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The problem can not be reproduced with NTFS-3G 2009.2.1, internal FUSE and kernel 2.6.26. NTFS-3G and/or the kernel is too old in Ubuntu 8.10. Upstream NTFS-3G has closed this issue report as INVALID and Ubuntu specific. -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You r

[Bug 204133] Re: wubi install unusable - Buffer I/O error on device loop0

2008-07-11 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Nice work. Colin, FUSE doesn't support sync(2) but the 'sync' mount option should be ok because FUSE writes are always synchronous at the moment. Your patch fundamentally solved ntfs-3g 'sync' support minus some issues (cached metadata, disk caching, propagating the sync option to FUSE, portabilit

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is a kernel problem which was (supposedly) fixed silently in the recent kernel security upgrade. Probably it's time to submit a CVE for it ... -- Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250597 You received this bug notification because you are a

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Ok, I see. Not even one user can write to the partition? Well, Ubuntu is using an old, unsupported, custom patched and uncertified NTFS-3G driver with external FUSE. If the configuration is not right then this problem can indeed happen. I suggest removing the Ubuntu NTFS-3G package and installing

[Bug 250597] Re: Cannot mount ntfs partition as only writable by 1 user

2008-07-22 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008, themuddler wrote: > The problem isn't that not-even-one can write, but that any user can > read/write when it's supposed to be accessible by just 1 user (the > owner). This is what I answered originally. Upgrade your kernel to the fixed one and your problem is gone. -- C

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What are the outputs of ntfs-3g.probe --readwrite /dev/sda5 ntfs-3g.probe --readonly /dev/sda5 Yes, the log file is important even if we can't create yet the NTFS debug file. We will make a solution for you depending on the above results. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partitio

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Storno the ntfs-3g.probe's. I just realized you use ntfsprogs-2.0.0 and have problem with the image file, not the NTFS device. Please use ntfsclone from ntfsprogs 1.13.1. ntfsprogs-2.0.0 has problems. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Well, if the journal file is unclean then ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip will fail too. There are two choices: 1. Run ntfsfix on /dev/sda5 before running ntfsclone (any version). 2. Run ntfsfix on ntfsmeta.img then ntfsclone ntfsmeta.img. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives B

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Use the --force option. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Good job! :-) Yes, bzip2 is unfortunately very slow. We will solve this issue in the future by using a different NTFS debug image format. The actions are correct. I would also need the output of egrep -3i 'ntfs|ata|sd|i/o' /var/log/daemon.log and the name of the file which crashes Vista. --

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please download http://ntfs-3g.org/download/ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip.tgz Unpack it and use ntfsclone-1.13.2-wip instead of ntfsclone. Thanks. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please also send the output of egrep -i 'ntfs|ata|sd|I/O' /var/log/daemon.log /var/log/daemon.log could be also /var/log/messages, /var/log/messages.log, /var/log/syslog or something else distribution specific. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.la

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I'll make you an ntfsclone binary which you can use, please wait a bit. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubunt

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Yes, --force ntfs-3g mount and unmount should also fix it. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailin

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS interoperates with several other subsytems and if one of them fails then the problem appears as an NTFS bug but in fact it isn't. That's why more, non-NTFS info is needed, to confine where the problem is. The good news is that no sign of any hardware problem. However it seems the NTFS partit

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The file metadata is indeed inconsistent. Did you start to download the file in Linux or Vista? What is your Vista version? Do you have Vista Patches, Service Packs? -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Yes, chkdsk has many problems unfortunately. If it still crashes then no need for the other debug file. What are the Amule versions for Windows and Linux? You don't have Windows Home Server, do you? Microsoft is having major problems with NTFS file corruptions and they even had to hire back one

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
That would be a very good observation! If BSOD comes when you copy the file then please run the below command in Linux shell. It is one line: for i in $(seq 1 200); do dd if=/dev/zero of=sparse bs=4096 seek=$((2*$i)) count=1 conv=notrunc; done Then try to copy the 'sparse' file on Windows. If it

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Wed, 8 Oct 2008, [utf-8] Nicolò Chieffo wrote: > Do you think that sparse files are wrongly managed by ntfs-3g? They are fine. But your case is more complex than the usual one. It also could be a unique, subtle problem. Nobody else reported this problem and I also can't reproduce it. > This m

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Can you write down the Vista BSOD messages, or make a photo about it? -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's possible that this is a pure Windows bug. Either a Microsoft NTFS or a device driver related. Google found many similar crashes but none of them involved NTFS-3G, only for Windows recovery. Here is an idea how we could prove and document this is a pure Windows bug. 1. Install Cygwin (a Linu

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The ZIP package at http://www.flexhex.com/docs/articles/download/sparse.zip contains a CS.EXE file which is supposed to work similarly as the cygwin cp --sparse=always command. The test could be simpler. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.n

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I've found the below on http://channel9.msdn.com/forums/Coffeehouse/256701-QuickTime-BSODs- Vista-solution "That eMule had to remove all the sparse file support on Vista because of Vista bugs" So, it's very well possible this is a pure Vista bug what any software can trigger, not only NTFS-3G. -

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Cygwin cp --sparse=always doesn't work. The files are not sparse. CS.EXE also doesn't work on my x64 because it's a 32-bit EXE file. Maybe you're more lucky. Of course it's also possible that Microsoft silently disabled sparse file support because they had too many reliability problems with them.

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-09 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
No such problem was reported with XP. Sparse support can't be disabled for NTFS-3G because it's part of the POSIX specification. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thank you for the bug report. The NTFS-3G project is very interested to help you to solve your problem. Please follow the below steps to be able to help you: 1. Reproduce the problem. 2. Create the NTFS debug information according to http://www.linux- ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsclone#store_only_nt

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Sorry, step 4 had a typo, it should be: 4. Repeat step 2. It's important to create the NTFS debug info right after running CHKDSK and before trying to reproduce the problem. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2008-10-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
And of course step 6 was supposed to say: 6. Send the files you got in step 2. and 4. to szaka AT ntfs-3g.org or make them available somewhere for download and let us know if step 3 helped. -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/27901

[Bug 269946] Re: open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails

2008-09-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Can you reproduce with non-swap files too? If the swap is on then the error is correct (protects from crash, system corruption) though I think the errno is indeed misleading (it's a kernel problem). -- open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269946 You received this

[Bug 269946] Re: open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails

2008-09-14 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thanks. The issue is added to the TODO list. NTFS-3G never supported O_DIRECT. It was just an accident that it (incorrectly) "worked" in the past which, it seems, was fixed by the kernel. -- open(filename, O_DIRECT) on ntfs fails https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/269946 You received this bug notifi

[Bug 242426] Re: Ark hangs when file/directory name on NTFS contains a colon

2008-06-24 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 Why does the driver allow special characters in the filenames? NTFS supports several filename namespaces at the same time: DOS, Win32 and POSIX. While the NTFS-3G driver handles all of them, it always creates new files in the POSIX namespace fo

[Bug 243287] Re: Copying files from Linux to NTFS Partition (using NTFS-3G) makes random-placed non-movable system blocks which causes file fragmentation

2008-06-27 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Here are some info what kind of fragmentations exist. It's important to read because fragmentation types are often misunderstood: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computer) The NTFS-3G driver tries hard not to fragment files and if you're doing a lot of concurrent writes then you will f

[Bug 199161] Re: File and directory removal, rename and move may have been denied with an "Operation not supported" error message

2008-06-16 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#compressed -- File and directory removal, rename and move may have been denied with an "Operation not supported" error message https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199161 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 230906] Re: Using special characters in filenames prevents Windows from opening

2008-05-16 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 Why does the driver allow special characters in the filenames? NTFS supports several filename namespaces at the same time: DOS, Win32 and POSIX. While the NTFS-3G driver handles all of them, it always creates new files in the POSIX namespace for

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Hi, I'd like to ask, why do you want to use the NTFS kernel driver? NTFS-3G can be also used read-only with the 'ro' mount option but a memory corruption can not lead to system crash or data corruption on the disk unlike in case of the NTFS kernel driver. Fundamentally NTFS-3G is the five years

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
CPU usage: - Until very recently Ubuntu indeed used an old, very CPU consuming driver. - The NTFS-3G CPU usage is visible in the process list which is not true for kernel drivers. This makes some people think that the driver uses a lot of CPU even if sometimes it uses less than the in-kernel Li

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-05-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Sorry, this is the link I originally intended to send in my last comment: http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~swift/projects/drivers.html -- Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/232443 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubunt

[Bug 237575] Re: Not ext2/ext3 drivers for other operating systems available when you format an external HDD or USB stick

2008-06-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
> Reading more about the open source NTFS-3G driver, > I have to add that apparently it neither supports change > of file owner nor access rights, so IMHO NTFS is no option > for the Ubuntu user. On the NTFS-3G home page at http://ntfs-3g.org the first link in the first paragraph points to NTFS

[Bug 232443] Re: Let the user choose between ntfs-3g and ntfs kernel driver

2008-06-08 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
By default the kernel driver mounts read-only, NTFS-3G read-write. Mounting read-write turns on a lot of consistency checks to protect against potential data corruptions during write. But of one uses the 'ro', read-only mount option then NTFS-3G will mount the volume the same way as the kernel driv

[Bug 320192] Re: ntfs-3g doesn't support "exec" option

2009-01-23 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The 'exec' mount option is of course supported. In fact it's the default NTFS-3G option. There are over 80 NTFS-3G mount options. These are NTFS- 3G, FUSE user space, FUSE kernel driver and kernel VFS related. The NTFS-3G man page documents only the NTFS-3G specific mount options, none of the other

[Bug 318625] Re: Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. "?"; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes

2009-01-20 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is definitely not an NTFS-3G problem. The '?' is a perfectly legal NTFS character in the POSIX namesspace NTFS-3G uses: http://ntfs- 3g.org/support.html#posixfilenames2 -- Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. "?"; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volume

[Bug 330023] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup()

2009-02-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 did fix a crash in ntfs_attr_lookup if a file or directory (this is the case here) was highly fragmented and there was an NTFS corruption or hardware problem: http://ntfs-3g.org/releases.html -- ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33

[Bug 330023] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_attr_lookup()

2009-02-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The crash happens exactly at the same place which was fixed in NTFS-3G 2009.2.1. However the stack trace doesn't look correct. There are some problems with it. Like apparently using debug symbols from the NTFS-3G 2009.2.1 release and manual edition of vital parameters to corrupt values which shoul

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: util-linux => ntfs-3g -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists

[Bug 336762] Re: ntfs hard links not working

2009-03-07 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Hard links work fine (you can confirm by ls -i after cp -al) but probably the 'echo B > B' case doesn't because apparently the '>' creates a new file for some reason. Do you have any specific software which doesn't work correctly with NTFS-3G? -- ntfs hard links not working https://bugs.launchpa

[Bug 175503] Re: User-friendly automounting of ntfs partitions with an unclean logfile

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
NTFS-3G solved this issue from version 2009.2.1: http://ntfs- 3g.org/releases.html -- User-friendly automounting of ntfs partitions with an unclean logfile https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/175503 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubu

[Bug 310326] Re: Intrepid: USB HDD not mounted

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: hal (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g => hal Status: Incomplete => Confirmed -- Intrepid: USB HDD not mounted https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/310326 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 240429] Re: adding files to mercurial repository fails on ntfs

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
The driver works as expected (Operation not permitted). Remove the default_permissions option then it should work. Please see more detail about permission handling in the NTFS-3G manual ('Access Handling and Security' section): http://ntfs-3g.org/manual.html ** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu)

[Bug 328352] Re: mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait)

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's not clear what you copied from where to where and how. Anyway it looks to be a hardware problem. Check your RAM and disks for bad sectors, e.g. by the utility badblocks. -- mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328352 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 328352] Re: mount.ntfs causes 100% CPU (iowait)

2009-02-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It's impossible to see what NTFS-3G has to do with the problem. Yes, the /dev/sda1 NTFS partition is mounted at /media/WindowsRecovery by NTFS-3G but you were reading from another file system mounted at /media/mobile120 and writing to partition /dev/sda2. The IOWAIT is completely normal when one

[Bug 250060] Re: ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_log_handler_syslog()

2009-02-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Not ntfs-3g specific, other programs crash in syslog -> dl_fixup() too: Bug #188354, Bug #279586, Bug #124453 ** Changed in: glibc (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g => glibc -- ntfs-3g crashed with SIGSEGV in ntfs_log_handler_syslog() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250060 You received this b

[Bug 279017] Re: sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD

2009-02-21 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is a known Vista problem handling sparse files. Please contact Microsoft. Good luck! -- sharing amule temp files winth Vista in ntfs partition gives BSOD https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279017 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 162863] Re: ntfs-3g does not respect fstab options

2009-07-10 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#useroption2 -- ntfs-3g does not respect fstab options https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/162863 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https:

[Bug 412119] Re: Copying NTFS partition full might cause NTFS errors

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please see http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#indexo ** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Copying NTFS partition full might cause NTFS errors https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/412119 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subsc

[Bug 389718] Re: Ntsf-3g is corrupting NTFS structure.

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Ntsf-3g is corrupting NTFS structure. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/389718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.

[Bug 396874] Re: mount ignores options from fstab

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#wine It's a mount(8) bug/feature. Use 'users,exec', not 'exec,user'. ** Package changed: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) => util-linux (Ubuntu) -- mount ignores options from fstab https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/396874 You received this bug notification because you are a member

[Bug 368134] Re: nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- nfts-3g ubuntu 9.04 filesystem corruption https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/368134 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@li

[Bug 318625] Re: Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. "?"; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes

2009-08-17 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Package changed: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) => rhythmbox (Ubuntu) -- Rhythmbox shouldn't set illegal / special characters on filenames (i.e. "?"; question mark) when ripping to NTFS volumes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/318625 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

[Bug 157396] Re: Copyng a file to a NTFS drive change the date and the time of the file

2007-10-26 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
When you /bin/cp a file then it gets new timestamps by default whatever is the file system. Nautilus maybe redefines this behaviour but not consistently. ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g => nautilus -- Copyng a file to a NTFS drive change the date and the time of the f

[Bug 111563] Re: ntfs-3g i/o errors writing large audio files to usb hard drive

2007-05-10 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
If you have an older ntfs-3g release than version 1.328 then the slowness is an ntfs-3g limitation and you should upgrade to at least version 1.328 or preferable version 1.417. The maximum supported NTFS file size and the volume size is 16777216 GB (16 EByte) but typically your hardware and Linux

[Bug 111396] Re: ntfs-3g i/o errors writing large audio files to usb hard drive

2007-10-13 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Yes, it can happen with any disk which powers down during write activity, have bad sectors or other hardware fault.. You can find the proofs in the logs under /var/log/ There isn't absolutely anything ntfs-3g could do about such problems besides reporting them. They are on a lower level. -- ntf

[Bug 152740] Re: NTFS-3g on boot switch off ru_RU.UTF-8 locale

2007-10-14 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale -- NTFS-3g on boot switch off ru_RU.UTF-8 locale https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/152740 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.co

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-10-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please see the most common reasons for high NTFS-3G CPU usage at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#cpu100 I also do remember a problem in amarok what one of the above items also suggests and Waster's comment too who doesn't use NTFS. Maybe you don't have the fix Sarah mentioned? -- Amarok hang

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-10-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
So, do you suggest that there is a problem using FLAC files with Amarok and NTFS-3G? If yes, then please do the following as root at the command line: umount mount -t ntfs-3g -o debug &> ntfs-3g.log reproduce the problem umount and then send here or to [EMAIL PROTECTED] th

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-10-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Who is using CPU when amarok hangs, and can you find anything in the /var/log/daemon.log file? -- Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24063 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for amarok in ubunt

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-10-15 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
I remember an amarokcollectionscanner high memory usage problem. That could also cause all kinds of weird problems. -- Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24063 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contac

[Bug 24063] Re: Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files

2007-10-16 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Thanks a lot Evgeny. Amarok (or the FLAC codec) indeed uses very unoptimal write buffer size which significantly worsen the performance: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#dd -- Amarok hangs during tagging of FLAC files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/24063 You received this bug notification because

[Bug 48229] Re: Partition table destroyed when resizing NTFS

2007-10-06 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Gparted isn't maintained for a long time and some of the most serious problems are in Parted actually. I wrote ntfsresize what gparted uses and explained the problems and how to fix them to the authors many times but they never got fixed for some reasons. Regards, Szaka == NTFS-3G Lead Developer

[Bug 151099] Re: [GUTSY] Unable to mount NTFS partition

2007-10-10 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Neither ntfs-3g nor fuse bug. The partition is already in exclusive use by the kernel and you must mount the partition somewhere under /dev/mapper. ** Changed in: ntfs-3g (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- [GUTSY] Unable to mount NTFS partition https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/151099 You r

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Can anybody send an install log? I've never heard about situation where mount.ntfs (ntfs-3g) would hang, only here. Mount either succeeds or it fails and the mount command returns. The issue is clearly related to mount.ntfs, it triggers something somewhere but only the log could tell where the rea

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Anybody knows which package /etc/init.d/mountall.sh belongs? The problem can't be fixed in the ntfs-3g package, only in the one which /etc/init.d/mountall.sh has and its maintainer is apparently not aware of the problem, so he can't fix it. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes compl

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Vangelis Tasoulas: can you see the files if you do umount -a mount -a If not then your problem is different, e.g. your locale is not configured, or doesn't exist, or not the correct one. == NTFS-3G Lead Developer: http://ntfs-3g.org -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes complete

[Bug 147129] Re: windows xp fails to mount

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
It can't be fixed. Windows is in a mess which can be fixed only by itself. Mounting the drive is intentionally denied because it would be highly unsafe and could result full data loss. What I think nobody would like to happen. Workaround can be the usage of the 'force' mount option which, as I men

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
** Changed in: sysvinit (Ubuntu) Sourcepackagename: ntfs-3g => sysvinit -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132357 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bu

[Bug 137141] Re: ntfs-3g uses most of the cpu

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Metadata means that it don't have any user data, only the NTFS structures. -- ntfs-3g uses most of the cpu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/137141 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-b

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What's you /etc/fstab? Probably your locale is on a separate partition which weren't mounted yet when ntfs is mounted. Moving the ntfs-3g entry to the end of /etc/fstab should help. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly h

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Gutsy uses a very old NTFS-3G which denied several mount scenarios what are supported now. For example when the NTFS partition was resized previously, or the Windows hibernation file is corrupted. There are two problems here: 1) NTFS-3G is tool old 2) Install shouldn't stop if mounting the NTFS

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
My comment was for the earlier syslog. Is mount.ntfs a symlink to ntfs- 3g? If yes then there are more problems. -- [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135370 You received this bug notification because you are a member o

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Do you have the same problem with not JFS file system too? JFS is dead, IBM stopped supporting it, so it can have all short of problems, more and more in time. -- [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135370 You received t

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-09-30 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
If you can make a custom installer then you can use the 'debug' ntfs-3g mount option and you could see on the stdout (or stderr, depending on the fuse version used) what's exactly happening with the driver and where it hangs. Well, actually unless it's in the kernel which is very probably. How much

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
@Vangelis Tasoulas: you're not using the NTFS-3G driver but the old kernel one. Change all occurances of ntfs to ntfs-3g in your fstab file and everything should be fine if you use the latest gutsy install with the fix Colin just mentioned. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes compl

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
If you're Greek then the LANG="en_US.UTF-8" setting is not ok. You should use LANG=el_GR.UTF-8 -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132357 You received this bug notification because you ar

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
What's the output of 'locale -a'? -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132357 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubunt

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
You don't have Greek locale: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale I'm surprised you can use them even after umount/mount. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/132357 You received this bu

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Please try el_GR.utf8 too. Technically you don't have el_GR.UTF-8 (local -a output). This shouldn't matter but maybe this legacy support was broken by a developer accidentally. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly https:

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
ntfs-3g's fd 3 is the ntfs block device where it read/writes. Anything else is closed (fd 0,1,2 unless the 'debug' option is used). Logging is done via openlog(3). -- [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/135370 You receiv

[Bug 135370] Re: [gutsy tribe-5] installer stops at 'creating a filesystem' because of mount.ntfs

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Actually the daemon(3) function is used by default which redirects the standard fd's to /dev/null: lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Oct 2 00:58 5 -> socket:[2190855] lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Oct 2 00:58 4 -> /dev/fuse lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Oct 2 00:58 3 -> /dev/hda3 lrwx-- 1 root root 64 Oct

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Vangelis: Could you try el_GR.utf8 (not el_GR.UTF-8 and not en_US.UTF-8)? Probably it won't make a difference but if 'locale' canonicalises differently then perhaps something else too. -- files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctl

[Bug 132357] Re: files with unusual character sets are sometimes completely invisible to the driver : locale not set correctly

2007-10-01 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Vangelis: Does it help if you put into /etc/default/locale LC_ALL="el_GR.UTF-8" and you export it in /etc/init.d/mountall.sh where the LANG variable exported too? export LC_ALL Though something could still set it (back) to "C" before NTFS mount. setlocale(3) ignores LANG if LC_ALL is set. -- f

[Bug 144813] Re: ubuntu doesn't see every file on ntfs

2007-09-25 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
This is an Ubuntu boot time configuration problem. The locale environment is set only after the NTFS partition was mounted which is too late: http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#locale3 -- ubuntu doesn't see every file on ntfs https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144813 You received this bug notification

[Bug 146225] Re: bunzip2 cannot extract files

2007-09-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Using strace bunzip2 ... you can see why the kernel doesn't allow you to do what you want. Bunzip2 wants to set the owner or a permission it's not authorized to do according to your mount parameters. Set the uid= to the user you're bunzip2'ing and it will work. -- bunzip2 cannot extract files htt

[Bug 146225] Re: bunzip2 cannot extract files

2007-09-28 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
Then you need to fix bunzip2 to work the way as gzip, or turn off NTFS- 3G permission handling completely (no umask=, fmask=, dmask=, uid=, gid= mount options). -- bunzip2 cannot extract files https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146225 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ub

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