<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 11:25 PM, L. V. Lammert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lvl@omnitec.net">lvl@omnitec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
GOt a 2T USB drive on a Fedora 9 system, .. it seems to mount & run just<br>
fine as NTFS (trying to maintain Windoze compatiblity), but after a large<br>
copy job, the drive seems to "go to sleep" and throw I/O errors on<br>
subsequent access.<br>
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Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Not quite sure where to look, ..<br>
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</blockquote></div><div><br></div>As I understand it, NTFS support in Linux has improved greatly in recent times (not sure if FC9 qualifies). When I last tried this I was not getting superb results (but I can't remember what my probs were).<div>
<br></div><div>I chose another path: I installed the ext2/3 driver for windows and then formatted the drive as ext3. This adds one complication because Linux will respect and preserve the permissions of the fs so you'll need to treat it just like you would a non-usb drive. Also, I created a small partition as fat that had the ext2/3 driver and a readme so that I'd remember.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you're interested in trying this, search for ext2ifs.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Matthew Nuzum<br>newz2000 on freenode, skype, linkedin, <a href="http://identi.ca">identi.ca</a> and twitter<br><br>
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