Charles Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> afaik, NTFS mounts as read only. You can only format the things.. (I
> would love to be proven wrong on this :( as I have a couple ntfs drives
> that need some work....)

That's basically right. 

I don't keep track of them, but last I heard there was at least one
native linux driver that had partial write support. Although it comes
with warnings not to use it in write mode, hence it's not enable by
default. It may have improved since then. There was also something
called captive, from memory, that used the windows ntfs driver for
read write support.

Both aren't really an option for distros to support out of the box,
but can be enabled with a bit of google research and some effort.
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