Re: ntfs rw in etch??

["Bruno Buys" <bruno.grupos@gmail.com>]

On 10/24/06, Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de> wrote:

Bruno Buys wrote:
> This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win
> partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write
> anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs from linux sounds like
> a taboo, to me.
>
> /dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type ntfs (rw,gid=1000,uid=1000)

from the man page to ntfsmount (etch)

NAME
        ntfsmount - NTFS module for FUSE.

SYNOPSIS
        ntfsmount device mount_point [-o options]

DESCRIPTION
        ntfsmount  is a FUSE module that rely on libntfs. You need FUSE
to com-
        pile it, xattr is recommended, but not mandatory.

        Fully implemented ntfsmount features:
               · Read-write access to normal and sparse files.
               · Read-only access to compressed files.
               · Access to special Interix files (symlinks, devices, FIFOs).
               · List/Read/Write/Add/Remove named data streams.
               · Supports Linux and FreeBSD.

        Partly implemented features:
               · Create/Delete/Move files and directories.
               · Hard link files.


I have no expierience myself how trustable that is...

HTH, Johannes


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I tried a little. It seems that files can be edited but not created or removed.