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druha
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 Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject: Question to captive-ntfs users |
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Hi i tried to emerge captive to be able to write to ntfs partitions and emerge told me that the package has been masked. As i have read on the man page for emerge, that means it can cause troubles (im still a newbie on gentoo), so i would like to know if any of you have ever had any problem using this tool (specially if it can cause any damage to the information stored in the partition). Thanks  |
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atrader42
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| I've never gotten any sort of damage from it, but I can tell you that it can be a pain to get working and sometimes just won't work at all. I suggest that if you want to try it, try it with a partition that you don't care about so that if there is a problem, you don't lose anything important. Good luck. |
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jsosic
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It's very unlikely that captive will bork your NTFS partition, cause it uses Windows system files for access to the drive. Writing to ntfs is god damn slow, about 3MB/s if I remember correctly, so it's practically unusable.
If you want to use it, you first have tu unmask it. Search the forums to find out how. |
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