ntfs 3g etc extensions

[vinceASPECT]

Hello forum,

If i load the NTFS 3g and associated extensions..........

Does this then allow me to .......Read and Write........ to any NTFS formatted partition or drive right?

Should i first create a TCE or TCL empty directory on the mentioned NTFS partition?

i know it's likely not widely used...........but the ntfs idea seemed to work fine in the past for putting extensions there and then loading them from the ntfs location


thx
C

[wysiwyg]

Hey vinceASPECT,

The NTFS package should enable you to both read and write to NTFS partitions.  However, I think TinyCore has to be remastered in order to get it to use an NTFS partition to load extensions from it because NTFS is not part of the ramdisk image (hence the remastering of it to include NTFS support during the boot process).  Without this step, the ramdisk image has no knowledge of how to mount an NTFS partition.  Unless the readonly NTFS support was included in the Linux kernel (which I'm not sure of).

As an alternative, I could create a hook in the pax package so that a script could be called to redirect the TCE directory to an NTFS partition and the package loading could take place there.  The only two packages you would need in the original TCE directory would be NTFS and pax.