Martin Ignacio Lange wrote: > Hello everybody. I have a problem. I can't mount my NTFS with write > permisions. This is the command that I am sending: > mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/ > I tried all the variants.. but i can't get to write to the disk. Is > this possible...Can anyone help me here, please. > Thanks a lot > Martin > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > There is experimental writing for NTFS 4, but not for the newer variants that come with NT5 and NT5.1 (Win2K and WinXP).
By default, the experimental writing is not compiled into the kernel. Sorry, but as long as MS keeps the filesystem secret, we are limited to what we can reverse-engineer. By opening a terminal window and using su to login as root and cd /usr/src/linux make xconfig and clicking on the filesystems box, I confirmed that the standard configuration does not include NTFS write support. It is also labeled "DANGEROUS" in bold all-caps right where the 'n' is checked to keep it out of the kernel. So You can read all 3 NT filesystems You can write NT4 with an element of risk. You can write to the newer ones with fair assurance of corrupting data beyond hope of retrieval. But to accomplish the last 2, you need to recompile the kernel with NTFS write enabled. Chapter 15 of the reference manual will be your friend, but it is a good idea to do make mrproper first, just to assure that dependency information is rebuilt as part of the process. Civileme
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