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From: felmon <nemo@nowhere.INVALID>
Subject: Re: new WD passport filesystem?
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On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 21:56:51 -0400, Haines Brown wrote:

> Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> writes:
> 
>> You need to type /sbin/blkid; evidentally JGM has /sbin on their path
>> but you do not.
> 
> No, I foolishly tried to run it as user. When run as root, I was able to
> extract the UUID for the drive to which I'm backing up, and it verified
> that it is formatted as NTFS.
> 
> Haines Brown

I know you said you mounted it with a 'hpfs' flag but there is a driver 
for using ntfs; I mount my ntfs partition thus:

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /Win7

I wonder if this wouldn't be safer.

used to use hpfs in my os/2 days. I believe it was IBM and then Microsoft 
worked on it and perhaps used it as a basis for ntfs (but my memory is 
not necessarily accurate).

Felmon