Re: problems read/write mounting of NTFS
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:03 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote:
> But, it was formatted with NTFS and I was not able to write to it[...]
> [...]
> I've also adjusted the associated options in /etc/fstab, but I still
> can't write to the disk.
Hello.
The standard NTFS kernel driver and ntfsprogs have only a limited
write support. E.g. the kernel driver only allows to change existing
files, but without changing their length.
> I then thought I should try the FUSE based tools, so I removed the
> ntfsprogs package and libntfs9 that it depends on and tried to install
> ntfs-3g. But it depends on 'libfuse2 (>=2.6), but all that's available
> in Etch is 2.5.3-4.4, which is already installed. [...]
NTFS-3G is not in stable yet, try installing it from
http://backports.org/. It will surely allow you to write.
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Krzysztof Lubanski
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