Re: NTFS errors

From: Pawel Kot (pkot@bezsensu.pl)
Date: Fri Sep 13 2002 - 03:05:55 EST


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

pkot

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