Re: Mozilla will not display top level dir of ntfs partition (Mandrake10.1)

From: CV (or254498_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/22/04

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    Innocenti Maresin wrote:

    >> This only happens with Mozilla and only on this particular
    >> partition. Konqueror works as expected and Mozilla does
    >> too on another vfat mounted partition.
    >>
    >> The funny thing is it _will_ display directories the
    >> next level down ok, eg. writing file:///c/u/ will
    >> display the C:\u directory as expected and from
    >> there on you can navigate down the tree as usual.
    >>
    >> Any ideas ?
    >
    > May be there are an entry with some unusual name in NTFS root directory,
    > which Linux translates to something confusing Mozilla.
    > Linux's NTFS driver translate names from UCS2 to iocharset
    > and there are troubles when name contains a character which not belongs to
    > iocharset. With what options is your /c mounted?
    > What entries contain /c ?
    > ls -lQ /c
    > What changes when you remount /c with nls=utf8 ?

    OK, I tried unmounting and remounting with all combinations of utf8 and
    also posix=1 (one or the other or both) and the result is still the same
    in all cases.

    ls -alQ /c just produces a list of normal filenames, no special
    characters, except spaces in some. (As it's a Spanish version of
    WinXP I expected some funniness, but no, not even any accented
    characters in filenames)

    And I tried running mozilla as root as well to bypass any
    protection related issues. Same result as before, in all cases.
    It's mozilla 1.7.2 btw.

    Hmmm, only thing I can think of is that I shrunk this NTFS partition
    during installation to make space for Mandrake, in case that left
    the partition in a funny state or something. Would be surprised
    though since windows still works, and no other apps have any
    difficulty accessing the partition.

    I launched mozilla from a text terminal to see if I could catch any
    error messages, but there is no output at all.

    Anyways, this was not really important but my curiosity was roused,
    and it keeps bugging me ...

    Thanks for the ideas, Cheers CV

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