Re: Win-xp NTFS mount problem
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 22:30, Satelle, StevenX wrote:
> If you really want to write to NTFS and can accept the risks (You have a
> regular backup) You can enable write support for ntfs in the kernel config
> (its in the fs section) but I wouldn't recommend it. What I have is an ntfs
> c drv and a small -1 gig fat32 d drv. It really is a bad idea to write to
> ntfs though, win32 and unix do permissions differently you could corrupt
> the permissions for everything on the c drv
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: chris cotsapas [mailto:chris@nodalpoint.org]
> On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 08:45, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> > Greetings:
> > 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?
> As others have stated, there is no reliable write support for NTFS. I got
> round this problem by converting my Win2k partitions to FAT32, which is
> read-writable from linux.
>
> hth
>
> Chris
Thanks to all that responded to this inquiry. It was suggested that I
convert back to fat32 by several posters. The copy of winXP on this laptop
doesn't seem to have that ability. I think it is either the OEM version
(gateway 2u) or that M$ doesn't want xp users to have FAT32 native support.
I don't know if it is either of these, both of them, or none of them.
I don't want to hose the partition at this point. In fact, my desktop just
had a mainboard failure so I am now dependant on this little ole brute to get
by with until I can come to grips with replacing my not quite 1 year old
super computer :(
At any rate, thanks again for all the posts. I learned that I like M$ even
less then I did when I switched to Linux back in '97 (or was in '96?) :)
tatah
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