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ntfs write under 2.6.8

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Name: Godgory
Date: October 7, 2004 at 00:10:27 Pacific
OS: Slackware Linux 9.0
CPU/Ram: Tbird@900/256DDR
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I recentry compiled the 2.6.1 kernel with experimental write support for ntfs. I couldn't write on ntfs. Now I compiled 2.6.8.1 kernel with full write support on ntfs, but still can't write on it.
Where am I donig something wrong, or, what's wrong and how can I fix it? How can I write on ntfs?
Thanks in advance.
Alex.



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Name: taurus
Date: October 7, 2004 at 05:56:40 Pacific
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Even if you activate the write mode for NTFS in your kernel, you CAN'T and SHOULD NOT write to your NTFS partition unless you want a damage NTFS partition... If you want to share (read/write) between Windows and Linux, use FAT32 (or VFAT). So, if you keep insisting to write to your NTFS partition, good luck because you will need it!!!

taurus


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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave
Date: October 7, 2004 at 23:45:43 Pacific
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You have to make sure that the partition is not mounted as read-only. A taurus says NTFS write support is pretty bad under GNU/Linux, the later 2.6 kernels support it better than before but you can only write to a file if yuou don't change the file size by more than about 1k! For better and safer NTFS write support use captive:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/


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