[wplug] writing on a ntfs partition

[Vanco, Don]

wplug-bounces+don.vanco=agilysys.com at wplug.org <> scribbled on :
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you very much for your help. In fact, there is no
> problem for me to mount the ntfs partition and to copy the
> files from there. But I can not write anything there. It
> shows the error message that it is a read only file system.
> 

Yep - if it's not clear from Duncan's message below, writing to NTFS is
still considered "experimental" and therefore risky.  There is a great
chance that you can annihilate the entire partition.

What I do is leave a portion of my drive partitioned as FAT32 - then I
can safely share it between OSes.

You might just need to take a look at the current options in /etc/fstab
- it may be that mount is being told to mount the partition as
read-only, and all you need to do is change the options and remount (the
aforementioned kernel drivers in place of course)

Don

> 
> 
> --- duncanhutty at comcast.net wrote:
>> I'll take the easy one and leave the rest for others.
>> 
>>> 2)I can not write on my windows partition. It is an
>>> NTFS system. Is there any way to achieve this?
>> 
>> Yes. You may be able to do:
>> modprobe ntfs
>> mkdir /mnt/windows
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/<your windows partition> /mnt/win
>> 
>> If not, you will probably need to recompile your kernel with support
>> for NTFS (possibly as a module depending on how often you want to
>> access that partition from Linux). If you get an error after the
>> modprobe command, keep going; you may have ntfs compiled in already.
>> 
>> Duncan Hutty
>> 
>> 
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