I am pretty sure that the USB interface is flaky on this drive. I could not get anything to work under Windows either... so I pulled out the drive, and used a different USB interface. It worked much better. Formatted the partition UDF... BOTH partitions were readable under Windows. Put it back in the original enclosure... nothing under Windows. CentOS gave a "volume is out of space" error when trying to copy a 4G ISO image, even though there was 93G free.<br>
<br>So I'll get a different enclosure!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:30 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jep200404@columbus.rr.com">jep200404@columbus.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:24:25 -0500, Joshua Kramer <<a href="mailto:joskra42.list@gmail.com">joskra42.list@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> Has anyone had issues with NTFS support on CentOS 6?<br>
><br>
> I have a 320G USB disk.<br>
<br>
> I attempted to create one partition FAT32, and one partition NTFS. This<br>
> setup is visible by both OS's. However, when writing files to the NTFS<br>
> partition, CentOS complains with generic I/O errors.<br>
<br>
Although I suspect software more than hardware for your woes,<br>
when one hears of I/O errors, it would be prudent to check the<br>
health of that drive with S.M.A.R.T., such as with<br>
smartctl -a /dev/[sh]d[a-f].<br>
Also, study your log files.<br>
<br>
Let's hope your USB drive is not made by Seagate,<br>
with its proprietary non-S.M.A.R.T. friendly stuff.<br>
<br>
> I have another USB disk, it is an older 40G IDE model, formatted NTFS.<br>
> CentOS shows no I/O errors writing to this disk.<br>
<br>
An ugly workaround would be to clone that partition with dd,<br>
then resize as desired. If that works, you might want to<br>
keep an additional clone with all the files deleted<br>
and the partition size minimized, to use a seed for<br>
other later fun. For mo' fun check out alternate data<br>
streams in NTFS.<br>
<br>
Nonetheless, check out the health of your hard drive.<br>
You should know that anyway.<br>
<br>
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