Re: writing on NTFS

[Curt Howland <Howland@Priss.com>]

I believe this has something to do with Microsoft having effectively 
copyrighted / patented NTFS after their "failure" to do so with FAT.

We can read it, but not write it. Longhorn will close this remaining 
loophole.

Curt-

On Tuesday 27 July 2004 14:16, carstenbahr@freenet.de was heard to 
say:
> Am 27.07.04 17:25:25, schrieb Ivan Glushkov
>
> <Ivan.Glushkov@desy.de>:
> >Hi all,
> >I have a problem with my NTFS partition. Currently I have in my
> >/etc/fstab the following:
> >
> ># <file system> <mount point>   <type>
> ><options>                                                      
> > <dump> <pass>
> >/dev/hda1       /ntfs           ntfs
> >rw,exec,nodev,nosuid,users,gid=glushkov,umask=002   0       0
> >/dev/hda7       /data           ntfs
> >rw,exec,nodev,nosuid,users,gid=glushkov,umask=002   0       0
> >
> >Looking at my kernel configuration one finds:
> >
> >cat .config | grep -i ntfs
> >CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
> ># CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
> >CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
> >
> >This way I can happily read my NTFS partition. But there is no
> >way to write on them. Any ideas?
> >
> >                      Thanks in advance,
> >                      Ivan
>
> Hi Ivan,
>
> go "goggle.de" for "captive". Or
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>
> Captive is the only linux-project that propperly support writing
> on NTFS.
>
>
> greetings
> CB

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