Re: NTFS errors

["Grega Fajdiga" <Gregor.Fajdiga@telemach.net>]

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
>
>
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