Re: [tlug] mounting ntfs japanese partition (aka japanese windows & linux!)

[David Bennett <davidbennett1979@example.com>]

Thank you kindly for your reply.

I have done quite a bit of research since I sent that post and here is
what I have come up with:

-o nls=utf8 should do the trick (seems to for everyone else!)
I have a partition with Japanese filenames from a Windows XP (american
copy). The filenames are mostly multibyte characters (but not always.)

When I use the utf8 option they show up but garbled. Most of the files
are "locked" and cannot be removed/ or accessed.

I have currently hooked up the drive and mounted it with the following:

mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8

When I try a different nls (used to be iocharset) such as sjis or
euc-jp the files do not appear at all (mounting with ntfs will skip
unreadable filenames which is what I presume is happening.)

So I am kind of at a loss! Are these filenames not in unicode format
on my windows drive? Possible I suppose....

Any suggestions?
Sincerely,
David



On 1/19/06, Edward Middleton <edwardmiddleton@example.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 20:34 +0900, David Bennett wrote:
> > All of the japanese filenames come out garbled, mostly with ?'s. They
> > are also "locked" (or so konqeror tells me!)
> Can you display locally created Japanese filenames?  Linux native NTFS
> write access is severely limited at the moment.
>
> > I am wondering if anyone has had any luck or suggestions on how to
> > access my Japanese files I would be greatful. My japanese windows
> > drive has not been kind to me whether it be a local mount or networked
> > via samba.
> Specifically what have you tried and what didn't work.  I have had no
> problems mounting either local or remote NTFS file systems with Japanese
> files on them. My /etc/fstab has the following.
>
> //servername/sharename  /mount/point cifs noauto,password=''   0 0
>
> Edward
>
>
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