hi guys!

I have recently emigrated from windows to linux (ubuntu) on my fileserver.. which means the filesystem on my disks are ntfs. so I did/do like this, format a 300 gb disk with ext3, move the files from another disk to it and then format the disk I have moved all files from, and so on... but now to the problem.

I have a 200 gb disk that mostly contain music (!!!!!) stupid as I'm couldnt I stay away from having some fun (I thought) while i moved files, I mounted it with the inbuilt ntfs support and it worked like a charm, then I installed ntfs-3g and mounted, that's when my problems started. some of the folders on the drive had some unusal characters (it looked nice in windows), what do you think happened whenI mounted with ntfs-3g? well..those folders with unusal characters disappered completly (almost all music were under a folder with a unusal character) I cant see those folderswith unusal characters at all, not with inbuilt ntfs support, not with ntfs-3g and windows say it's a unknown filesystem. It can be said that all other folders and files on the disk that doesnt contain unusal characters work! (cant "mount" in windows) and it's used as much space as before.

Any smart person that can give me some good tips-off? maybe any good application that can back it up?
Thx in advance!

/Mvh Jenso

add utf8=true to your fstab line. i.e.
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/dosdata ntfs-3g silent,umask=0002,utf8=true

that should help with the translation

The ntfs-3g document at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#usage says that the 'locale' option is needed to make all file names with strange characters visible. For example:

ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o locale=en_US.UTF-8

Run 'locale -a' to see which locales you have and choose an UTF-8 one. Then the strange file names will work for you too :-)

THX it worked!!!!
wonderful.