[Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD

[Gustin Johnson]

They should install side by side.  ntfs-3g is also only an apt-get away.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Protech Caribsurf
<protech at caribsurf.com>wrote:

> Thanks, Gustin, seems worth a try.****
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> Punky, any issues with installing ntfs-3g? Do I need to remove the
> existing ntfs package? If so, please give me some guidance – remember I’m
> new to this!!****
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> Derek****
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> *From:* Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin at meganerd.ca]
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:58 PM
> *To:* Protech Caribsurf
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> *Subject:* Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD****
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> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Protech Caribsurf <protech at caribsurf.com>
> wrote:****
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> <snip>
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> Would ntfs-3g be any different to what's on the standard package, does
> anyone know??****
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> ntfs-3g is very different because it uses the ntfs.dll in combination with
> some wine binaries all wrapped up in FUSE.  File systems that use FUSE are
> slow.  That is the short short short version that is not 100% accurate in
> the technical sense but should be close enough for this discussion :)****
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> With NTFS-3g you can put your media on NTFS drives as the performance is
> good enough for media playback (even video).****
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> My main display device at home is a Western  Digitial TV-Live+, so since
> it is running Linux (as is all but the wife's computer) the majority of my
> USB drives are either ext2 or ext3 depending on whether or not they are
> flash based or not.  I am also a fan of XFS on my data drives.  ****
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> I have been playing around with btrfs but it is no where near ready for
> prime time.****
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