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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Pity about NTFS being such a problem with Linux seeing as most external USB drives are formatted that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I am not willing to reformat to FAT32 and go through the process of putting all the music back on the drive – it was a selection rather than a ‘copyall’ so I will persevere a little longer with this.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Punky – will have a look at the permissions under Windows although I already made all operations available to Everyone under Windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Gustin/Punky – is the ntfs-3g package any different or better-suited than the ntfs driver already on Voyage MPD? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>John, thanks for the observations – seems the world of Linux has it’s own dark figures! Murdering his wife, huh…!! Shall format any further external drives to FAT32 – or have a look at a Linux fs format – another ‘to-do’ on the Linux adventure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks all<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Derek <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Gustin Johnson [mailto:gustin@meganerd.ca] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 12, 2012 3:39 AM<br><b>To:</b> Kim-man 'Punky' TSE<br><b>Cc:</b> Protech Caribsurf; voyage-linux@voyage.hk; Kevin Wang<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>You could try the ntfs-3g package. It is a FUSE based solution so the performance is not great, though still way more than enough for streaming music (or 1080p videos for that matter).<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>You would likely have to mount it manually.<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Kim-man 'Punky' TSE <<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com">punkytse@punknix.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi Derek,<br><br>For NTFS you can't mount rw or it is unsupported. Linux guy just don't have the spec. on NTFS so write is dangerous.<br><br>Probably it is permission problem of your files on the disk, not MPD. So better change the file permission on windows machines and plug back again, or re-format your disk to FAT32.<br><br>Regard,<br>Punky<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br>On 4/12/2012 10:44 AM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Hi Punky - I can mount it manually. I realized it was mounting as read-only<br>so I hooked it up to a Windows machine and ran Chkdsk. After this it mounted<br>flawlessly - no errors - and showed up as rw. Not sure if that matters?<br><br>However, no matter what I do it will not list any songs when I run 'mpc<br>update'. Have tried changing permissions - says Operation not supported -<br>so I went into the USB HDD via Windows again and allowed everyone all<br>operations - still no joy.<br><br>One odd thing - when I ran chmod -R 777 it scrolled through every song on<br>the USB drive but when is "ls /var/lib/mpd/music/music" it seems to list<br>only the directories - could this have a bearing on why it won't update?<br><br>Or is all this a NTFS issue?? Is there a way round it?<br><br>Derek<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Kim-man 'Punky' TSE [mailto:<a href="mailto:punkytse@punknix.com" target="_blank">punkytse@punknix.com</a>]<br>Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 8:42 PM<br>To: Protech Caribsurf<br>Cc: 'Kevin Wang'; <a href="mailto:voyage-linux@voyage.hk" target="_blank">voyage-linux@voyage.hk</a><br>Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] Problem mounting USB HDD<br><br>Hi Derek,<br><br>So you can see the disk, perhaps you can try manual mount. One potential<br>problem i see is your disk is NTFS formatted instead of FAT32.<br><br>Regards,<br>Punky<br><br>On 4/11/2012 11:08 PM, Protech Caribsurf wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>root@voyage:~# fdisk -l /dev/sda<br><br>Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes<br>255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of<br>16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes<br>/ 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk<br>identifier: 0xf6158a29<br><br> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System<br>/dev/sda1 1 60801 488384001 7 HPFS/NTFS<br>root@voyage:~# ls -la /media/<br>total 40<br>drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:45 .<br>drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 11 15:03 ..<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root<br>4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb2<br>drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb3 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root<br>4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb5<br>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb6 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root<br>4096 Oct 30 21:44 usb7 root@voyage:~#<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><br>--<br>Regards,<br>Kim-man "Punky" Tse<br><br>* Open Source Embedded Solutions and Systems<br> - Voyage Linux (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk</a>)<br> - Voyage ONE (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-one" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-one</a>)<br> - Voyage MPD (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd</a>)<br>* Voyage Store (<a href="http://store.voyage.hk" target="_blank">http://store.voyage.hk</a>)<br><br><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><br><br>-- <br>Regards,<br>Kim-man "Punky" Tse<br><br>* Open Source Embedded Solutions and Systems<br> - Voyage Linux (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk</a>)<br> - Voyage ONE (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-one" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-one</a>)<br> - Voyage MPD (<a href="http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd" target="_blank">http://linux.voyage.hk/voyage-mpd</a>)<br>* Voyage Store (<a href="http://store.voyage.hk" target="_blank">http://store.voyage.hk</a>)<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Voyage-linux mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk" target="_blank">Voyage-linux@list.voyage.hk</a><br><a href="http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux" target="_blank">http://list.voyage.hk/mailman/listinfo/voyage-linux</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>