On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 23:35, Indubitableness<wineforum-user@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This is how the partition is mounted. This is from the fstab > > /dev/sdb1 /media/Iomega_HDD ntfs-3g umask=000 1 0 > > I also thought maybe that NTFS would cause problems, but in this case I don't have a lot of choice. This is a shared backup drive for windows and linux and I am unwilling to shrink it and make further partitions, although I could. > Sometinhg else that might be possible, is to create a file on the NTFS partition, run mkfs on the file and mount it with a -o loop. That way you could have an ext[234] / reiserfs mount using space from the NTFS partition. This has an example: (loadmin is not really needed AFAIK) http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-filesystem/ Gert
