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NTFS-3g Installation


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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.

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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...

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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.

 

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?

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