On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake
> > version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I
> > compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem
> > remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to
> > all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is
> > that the right solution?
>
> Possibly, all you need to do is edit /etc/fstab.
>
> That said, I am skeptical that you can write to an NTFS volume, either
> safely or at all. NTFS is an undocumented file system, and changes have
> been made in the layout of data and metadata in the file system as NTFS
> has evolved. The most recent change is from NT 4 to W2K, and that is a
> major change.
>
>
If i remember well, even in the latest kernels, the NTFS module is for
read only. So a hack in /etc/fstab will not change that. I read somewhere
(cannot remember the exact url) that the NTFS driver is far too flacky to
allow writing without loss of data. The principal cause of this is a lack
of maintainer for this driver. Someone interested ? :-) In fact, i don't
even know the status of the module in the 2.4.testX, but the same issue
must arise here too...
Pascal Grosse
