Hi everyone,

I'm trying to setup a Maxtor OneTouch4 external USB drive in a Debian Etch box. This drive contains data written using Windows Vista.

The mount method is via autofs, and I have managed to mount it using the 'ntfs-3g' (well, actually 'ntfs-fuse') file system type. One of the mount options is 'locale=en_US-ISO8859-15', which seems to have the same effect than 'nls=ISO8859-15'. I can see all files in the file system, including those with latin characters in their names, and they show correctly.

The problem comes when trying to create new files / directories. Suppose the following directory hierarchy:
dir_a
dir_a/a
dir_a/e
dir_a/i
dir_b
dir_b/á
dir_b/é
dir_b/í

Note that dir_a does not contain any file or directory with latin characters. dir_b does.

If I cd into dir_a and try to create a file or directory with latin characters in its name, the operation succeeds. But if I cd into dir_b and try the same, I receive the following error:

/mnt/autofs/OneTouch/dir_b# touch ó
touch: cannot touch `ó': Operation not supported

I have been googling for hours but unable to find a solution Does anyone have an idea on how to solve this? Any suggestion will be welcome!

Thanks in advance,

Guillermo

since you are open to suggestions can you confirm that your kernel supports NFS pls

CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m

2) Can you report what happens when you mount with different pseudo filesystems?
eg what happens if you change locale=
NLS_ISO8859_1
en_US.UTF-8

3) Looking at my /etc/local.gen I can see (quickly) that the kernel config name may not be the same as the locale name....so I am wondering if you actually have support in your local file for displaying the appropriate set?

Hi,

Thanks very much for your answer. After several more hours of Internet surfing I realized that, at the time of this writing, the version of ntfs-fuse bundled with Debian Etch was below 2.0. The following forum thread explained that there were limitations in the number of files that could be created in earlier versions of ntfs-fuse: http://forum.linux-ntfs.org/viewtopi...cf41664c016740 . Therefore my problem was no related to encoding, which was working fine since the beginning, but to the version of ntfs-fuse.

Now I'll move to Ubuntu Desktop and evaluate whether it fits my needs or not. But those who really need to work with Debian Etch may find interesting the Debian Backports project: http://www.backports.org/ .

Cheers,

Guillermo