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From: Andrei D. <and...@po...> - 2003-10-01 05:57:26
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Hi Richard, Thanks a lot for your reply ! Richard Russon <nt...@fl...>: > Hi Andrei, > > Sorry for the slow reply. Same here > I hadn't forgotten you, I've just been really > busy. > > > Now I see a few dozen directories and files whose names have "?" as a > prefix, > > and I'm getting "file <filename> not found" if I try to copy them. > > OK, that sounds like a filename translation problem. > > > Is there anything I can do to track what's going on ? > > Yes, have a look in the system log for anything ntfs-related > > /var/log/message > > (you may need to be root to read this file). "NTFS: Invalid MFT record for 0x16b39" There are a few such records in /var/log/message, just as there were several times when I am getting a "file not found" reply. > > > pretty much all of these files have russian names - can it be > > something related to charset for examples ? > > All filenames in NTFS are stored in Unicode. The driver will try to > squeeze these names into ASCII. If it can't, normally it would ignore > them completely. Try mounting the partition as UTF8: > > mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -t ntfs -r -o iocharset=utf8 > > This character set will be able to represent all the Cyrillic > characters. Alternatively, using the KOI (something) set might work/ Sorry for possibly being unclear in my original post - I did mount the disk with the iocharset flag all the way, and I do see Cyrillic filenames - the only thing, "problematic" files all have "?" as a prefix (otherwise their name is cyrrillic and correct). > > Hope this helps, > FlatCap (Rich) > nt...@fl... > > > Regards, Andrei |
