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N5200 Module: NTFS3G
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Facts
Name: NTFS3G (Mount NTFS partitions read/write)
Maintainer(s): Andreas Vogel (omega)
Target: N5200
Latest version: 2.00.00
Depends on module(s): none
Description
General Overview and Installation
This module comes as a ZIP compressed file with the name N5200_<modname>_<version>.zip, where <modname> is the module name and <version> is the version number of the module. While unpacking the ZIP file, a new directory N5200_<modname>_<version> containing the module and its source code is created.
The module file is called <modname>.mod and the source code is located in the directory <modname>. The source code is included for interested people and is not needed for module installation. The file Makefile can be used to rebuild the module on Linux systems.
The module is installed using the "System"->"Module Mgmt" menu in the Thecus Web Server Administration. Specify the file <modname>.mod as the module file and press "Install".
The whole installation process is logged and sent as an E-Mail if you're configured in the E-Mail notification configuration. After successful installation enable the module in order to run the module.
After uninstallation of the module, a log of the uninstall process will be send to the user(s) configured in the E-mail notification configuration. Prior uninstallation of the module, the actual configuration data is backed up to the place "/data/raid/module/backup/<modname>". When the module is installed again, the module configuration is restored from that place if available.
Module version 2.00.00
This module comes with the NTFS-3G driver which can mount NTFS partitions read/write. Please check out the NTFS3G Project Page for further information.
The main program is called mount.ntfs3g which is used as all other mount commands:
mount.ntfs3g <device> <mountpoint>
You need to create the mountpoint directory yourself. You'll see a short help message when you call mount-ntfs3g without any command line arguments.
NOTE: according to the NTFS-3G project page, this stable version 1.1120 used here should be safe. In any case I'm not reponsible for any problems this driver might cause!
These programs are only available in the shell: so you need to login to your Thecus via SSH. For this you nedd to have the modules SSHD and SYSUSER installed.
On the module property page, you can do this:
- See a short module description and how to use the mount.ntfs3g program.
News
- <2008-01-25>: First public release.
Versions
- Version 2.00.00
- Release date: 2008-01-25
- Works on firmware: >=1.00.06.5
- Does not work on firmware: <= 1.00.05
- Download: N5200_NTFS3G_2.00.00.zip (approx. 3 MB)
- Major changes: First public release.