Tips&Tricks Corrupt files sharing between Linux and Win

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veselosky

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Location: Atlanta, GA USA

 

Post Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 12:40 pm Post subject: Corrupt files sharing between Linux and Windows

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I was having trouble sharing files between Mandrake Linux and Windows. I could read the Windows partition fine, but whenever I wrote to it from Linux, Windows could not read the files and told me to run chkdisk. Linux could read the same files just fine.

 

Solution: By default, Mandrake loads the Windows file system with the options:

 

" iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 "

 

The "iocharset=iso8859-1" is the default according to the man page for 'mount', so there is no reason to include it. But the default codepage is 437, not 850. I removed these options from the appropriate line in /etc/fstab and remounted the filesystem with just:

 

" umask=0 "

 

No more "corruption". Windows and Linux can both read the files now. Hope that helps someone out there!

 

-Vince

 

 

 

Editor's note: This thread was originally posted at the old MUB (Mandrake User Board at club-nihil). This post is the result of a 99% automatic backup, so due to its nature some text may be lost (improbable but possible).