Hi to all,

I recently installed Slackware 12.1 on a system that has Windows XP as the main OS.

It has the following partitions:
/dev/hda1 - some kind of system partition from the manufacturer (Dell)
/dev/hda2 - Windows XP (ntfs)
/dev/hda3 - swap
/dev/hda4 - Slackware 12.1 (ext3)

There are some files on the NTFS partition I want to access from Slackware, so I added the following line to /etc/fstab:
It seems to work fine, the partition is mounted at boot, but...

Some files and directories have international characters, like:
"c:\niels\pendências"
These files are simply not shown when I do a
"ls /mnt/XP/niels"

Now for the strangest part...
When I "umount /mnt/XP" and then "mount /mnt/XP", the files and directories that where missing suddenly show up!

So it seems my fstab line is ok, but somehow the mount at boot time is different.

I guess something has to be loaded before mounting the ntfs partition...
I could simply mount after booting, even put a line in rc.local, but I was hoping someone has a cleaner solution for me.

Did you try the locale option ? (from man ntfs-3g):
say your locale is: pt_BR

Yes, it works!
Thanks for the suggestion

Now, any idea why "locale=" works at boot-time and "iocharset-" doesn't?
Just curiosity...

Maybe iocharset is not a valid option for ntfs-3g filesystem ?
At least it is not present in its man page (man ntfs-3g)

ok, should read the manual again...
Back when we only had ntfs and not ntfs-3g, I always used iocharset=xxxx so I used it again for this system without checking the man page.
Thanks for setting me straight!