On Tuesday 11 Aug 2009, Shrinivasan T wrote:
> Friends.
>
> A 250 GB external hard disk is becoming read only when connected.
>
> It has NTFS file system.
>
> I tried remounting, and manual mount.

What is the command line for above actions.


The kernel ntfs driver does not support write operation even with the rw 
option.

Install the ntfs-3g (or equivalent name for your distro) package and 
mount it so:

mount -o force -t ntfs-3g /dev/path /mnt/some_mnt_pt

>I dont want to reformat it again.
>It is working well in windows boxes.

If you are already using ntfs-3g and still experiencing problems then 
the disk should be removed with proper shutdown of the USB device.

HTH
-- 
Arun Khan


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