Re: Win-xp NTFS mount problem
On Sun, 22 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> I can mount my NTFS win-xp partition and read the contents okay, but I
> can not write to it (either as user nor superuser). I have tried
> several mount options but each time touch a file, it reports "
> Read-only file system." It is odd because I am mounting it as
> read-write.
>
> At one point, the complaint was something about winXP+ NTFS. Is
> win-xp's NTFS not writable from Woody and bf24 kernel?
That is correct and, believe me, you really are grateful that the write
support in the NTFS driver is not enabled.
There isn't a single NTFS filesystem driver out there for Linux which
actually has safe write support. The old NTFS driver would corrupt
filesystems frequently, especially the NTFS5 system introduced with
Windows 2000.
The newest one has the beginnings of write support -- it can overwrite
some data in some files successfully...
...but there isn't any way to write files to an NTFS partition. Sorry.
Daniel
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