[Scythe]

If you're a Windows user like me and you don't want to give up your NTFS partitions and still use Linux, there is a way! NTFS-3g is a driver that allows for read and write access to NTFS partitions without having to boot up Windows.

I was looking around on my OpenSUSE install and came across this guide for installing ntfs-3g (and fuse). It should work for Mandriva as well (I'll definitely be trying it as soon as 2007 final is released and post if it works there too).

Anyway, the guide is here.

[scarecrow]

You can also add "ntfs-config" which touches the default HAL policies, so that an external harddisk would be automounted using ntfs-3g instead of the regular ntfs driver:
http://flomertens.free.fr/ntfs-config/
It works fine here (Arch Linux) although I'm slightly annoyed about it having many (chained) GNOME dependencies without any terribly good reason...

[Scythe]

Agreed. For some reason it's telling me that I don't have libglade installed, but my version is 2.6 something according to YaST.

Quote

frazeeg:/home/scythe/Desktop/ntfs-config-0.5.5/ntfs-config-0.5.5 # ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for library containing strerror... none required
checking for gcc... (cached) gcc
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... (cached) yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... (cached) yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... (cached) none needed
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for intltool >= 0.35... 0.35.4 found
checking for perl... /usr/bin/perl
checking for XML::Parser... ok
checking for iconv... /usr/bin/iconv
checking for msgfmt... /usr/bin/msgfmt
checking for msgmerge... /usr/bin/msgmerge
checking for xgettext... /usr/bin/xgettext
checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config
checking pkg-config is at least version 0.9.0... yes
checking for PACKAGE... configure: error: Package requirements (gtk+-2.0 >= 2.6 libglade-2.0 hal >= 0.5.2 hal-storage >= 0.5.2) were not met:

No package 'libglade-2.0' found

Consider adjusting the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable if you
installed software in a non-standard prefix.

Alternatively, you may set the environment variables PACKAGE_CFLAGS
and PACKAGE_LIBS to avoid the need to call pkg-config.
See the pkg-config man page for more details.

Any ideas?

[scarecrow]

I had no probz bulding it here, but the Arch Linux packages are monolithic, while the SuSE ones are splitted. I guess for building the driver you need libglade-devel which isn't installed.

[Scythe]

You're right. Installed libglade-devel and was able to do the install (on OpenSUSE).