Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:07:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:07:32 -0400 Received: from isis.telemach.net ([213.143.65.10]:17939 "HELO isis.telemach.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 08:07:31 -0400 Message-ID: <002e01c25b1e$33a62c30$41448fd5@gregaslo2a75n3> From: "Grega Fajdiga" To: "Anton Altaparmakov" , Cc: References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020913093230.00b1db50@pop.cus.cam.ac.uk> Subject: Re: NTFS errors Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:07:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2119 Lines: 65 Good day, Anton and Pawel thanks for the tip, all is well now. Best Regards, Grega > 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/