NTFS errors

NTFS errors

[Grega Fajdiga]

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?

Best Regards,

Grega Fajdiga

Re: NTFS errors

[Pawel Kot]

On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Grega Fajdiga wrote:

Hi Grega,

> 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?

No, they are not serious. It's just warning that some file names won't be
displayed correctly. They contain some non-iso8859-1 characters. The
solution would be (writing from memory, refer to the mount manual to check
this out):
mount -o remount,iocharset=utf8 /path/where/you/mountes/ntfs/volume

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Re: NTFS errors

[Anton Altaparmakov]

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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Re: NTFS errors

[Grega Fajdiga]

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 <aia21 at cantab.net> (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/
>
>