Re: mounting ntfs partitions?
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 06:33:06PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Hans-J. Ullrich:
> >
> > how can I get read-write access as a normal user to a ntfs-partition?
> > I trioed ntfsmount and pmount (with configured pmount.allow), but i found no
> > way to get write-access as a normal user.
>
> The ntfs module in the kernel offers only very limited write access. It
> is a feature constraint you have to live with.
A few years ago I heard that this constraint was to prevent damage to
the NTFS file system, which the develoers were not sure they fully
understood yet (Microsoft secrets and such). I thought that things had
progessed since them.
- hendrik
>
> > What is the debian-way?
>
> Use ntfs-3g.
>
> J.
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> [Agree] [Disagree]
> <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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