NTFS support

[Lethalix]

It seems as though NTFS support is not native on the Samsung Series 5.

Is there an easy way to go about this before I begin attempting to manually install ntfs-3g on here?

[res6jya6]

Nothing I'm aware of...

[Lethalix]

Upon begging the adventure of trying to manually install ntfs-3g I have come across chromeos has no build toold. No yum, no apt-get, no make, no nmake, nothing (as far as I'm aware). Honestly at this point I'm just going to switch to gentoo or f15.

[res6jya6]

NTFS (New Technology File System) is strictly owned by Microsoft... if Google wanted to put NTFS support in it's operating system, they would have to pay a royalty to Microsoft. Same goes for the PS3 and Wii. Since I do own a PS3 and non-Windows computers, all of my hard disk drives are formatted in FAT32 - save for my Windows 7 machine which is NTFS-formatted. The only limitation that I find cumbersome is the fact that I don't have the full array of characters available in my filenames, and I can't move files larger than 4GB to the drive. Oh well, I don't have many 4+ GB files.

[Lethalix]

If google wanted to put NTFS support in their operating system all they would have had to do was preinstall ntfs-3g (as is now the case with many unix based systems). I can live with no package manager apt-get/yum, but to not provide any build tools is a pain in the ass.

Edit: also they have currently have the adding of ntfs-3g to their development which can be tracked at: Issue 15701 - chromium-os - Chrome OS does not recognize NTFS and exFAT format - Chromium OS - the open source project behind Google Chrome OS - Google Project Hosting

Edit: I now have ntfs-3g working on my Samsung Series 5 giving me full read and write abilities to any ntfs formatted drive I plug in, if anyone wants a guide or a script to do everything for you let me know and I'll throw one together.

[erank24]

Please write somthing about it

[res6jya6]

NTFS is supported as of the latest DEV update. Sit tight, Beta and Stable users will see the feature coming soon.

[erank24]

But i tried it and it seems that it works only with OTG cable (Male micro USB to Female USB) - it means that you can connect an external ntfs HD.
it still doesn't recognize my sd card formatted to ntfs.
I wonder if this DEV update would consider the external sd card recognition also.

[rick1959]

But i tried it and it seems that it works only with OTG cable (Male micro USB to Female USB) - it means that you can connect an external ntfs HD.
it still doesn't recognize my sd card formatted to ntfs.
I wonder if this DEV update would consider the external sd card recognition also.

I suspect in due time. As Chrome OS Pilot following the evolution of Chrome OS, everything has largely been a matter of time. And who "squeaks" the loudest :-)

[erank24]

good thinking