Re: mount ntfs only readable?

[Eric <eric@bootz.us>]

Thanks for your help, just one more question, if I have an NT4 file 
system(that contains all my music) can I do a  FAT32/vfat (same 
difference) instead of NTFS?

Conall O'Brien wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:58:56PM IST, Eric 
> <eric@bootz.us> incoherently babbled:
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> > mount -t ntfs -w /dev/hdb1 /home/admin/Desktop/windows1
> >
> > Hello, I am trying to mount a file system writable, does anyone know if 
> > the Debian Sarge release 2.6.8 stock kernel can do this?
> >
> > I have no problem mounting the file system but it is only readable.
> >
> > The filesystem is NT 4 and is a second HD on my current Deb Sys.
> >    
>
> As described in the official Linux NTFS FAQ [1], you can't really write
> to an NTFS volume, unless you are interested in overwriting a file
> without shanging it's size.
>
>
> If you really want to share a volume between Windows and Debian on a
> system, I suggest you use FAT32/vfat (same difference) instead of NTFS.
>
>
> [1] http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2
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