Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:30:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:30:14 -0400 Received: from purple.csi.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.8.4]:28340 "EHLO purple.csi.cam.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 04:30:11 -0400 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020913093230.00b1db50@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 09:35:57 +0100 To: Grega Fajdiga From: Anton Altaparmakov Subject: Re: NTFS errors Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20020913093529.517f6d14.Gregor.Fajdiga@telemach.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1964 Lines: 50 At 08:35 13/09/02, Grega Fajdiga wrote: >Good day, > >I am using lk 2.4.19 + a NTFS 2.1.0 patch. Once in a while I get >lots of these errors: > >Sep 10 09:24:27 mujo kernel: NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): >ntfs_ucstonls(): Unicode name contains characters that cannot be converted >to character set iso8859-1. >Sep 12 09:39:29 mujo kernel: NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): >ntfs_ucstonls(): Unicode name contains characters that cannot be converted >to character set iso8859-1. >Sep 13 09:19:28 mujo kernel: NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): >ntfs_ucstonls(): Unicode name contains characters that cannot be converted >to character set iso8859-1. >Sep 13 09:20:22 mujo kernel: NTFS-fs error (device 03:01): >ntfs_ucstonls(): Unicode name contains characters that cannot be converted >to character set iso8859-1. > > >Are these errors serious? How can I get rid of them? The errors mean that there are one or more file names containing characters that cannot be displayed with the ISO8859-1 character set. This means that you cannot see that those files exist and you cannot access them. To get rid of the messages and to display the affected file names, you need to use the appropriate character set (which depends on what characters are in the file names). The only character set that can work with all characters is UTF8, so I would highly recommend to always use UTF8 and you will never see these errors. Best regards, Anton -- "I haven't lost my mind... it's backed up on tape." - Peter da Silva -- Anton Altaparmakov (replace at with @) Linux NTFS Maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/