[nflug] Creating an NTFS partition on a USB drive

[Joe]

Joe wrote:
> Questions:
> How do I create an NTFS partition on a usb drive that Windoze XP can
> read and write?
>
> How do I mount it in Linux (e.g.  with ntfs-3g)?
>
> Is there something special I have to do to copy back all the stuff from
> my Linux backup (forward slashes to backward ones)?
>
> Background:
>
> I've got a new 120GB usb drive for my notebook.  I want to create two
> partitions on it.  1) 50GB NTFS for Windows XP to use, 2) 70GB ext3 for
> Linux.
>
> I worked on this for several hours and reviewed my nflug mail list archive.
> I created the two partitions using cfdisk using 86 -NTFS Volume Set for
> 1) and ext3 for 2). (Linux sees them as /media/sdb1 and sdb2).  (There
> was also an 87 option with the same name.)
>
> Everything looked like it worked fine and I copied some files from
> Windoze C: to the new D:   and (dumb!) I deleted them from C: .
>
> When I rebooted later, Windoze couldn't see anything on D: and couldn't
> write to it.  I booted back into Linux and the files were all there.  I
> copied everything into a new directory under my $HOME for backup and
> then did a QTParted  and set the first partition to NTFS.
>
> Now, I tried to copy the backup into it (still in Linux) and it won't write.
> Somewhere along the line (in Windoze), I saw something about the
> partition being "raw".  Do I have to format it after fdisking it like in
> Windoze?
>
> I have ntfs-3g installed, but don't know how to invoke it for a usb
> partition.  It's /dev/sdb1 now, but if I plug in a thumb drive first,
> that will be sdb1 and the partition will have a different name.
>
> I tried sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1  and that seemed to
> work without an error, but I still couldn't write to it.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Joe
>
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Something is really screwy here.  I just went to th ext3 partition and
can't write to that either!  I found that it mounts as owned by root
with a 755.  I changed it in an xterm to 777, but it still won't write.

Joe
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