Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:18:21 +0000 (GMT) | From | Anton Altaparmakov <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system. |
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On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, linux-os wrote: > > On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote: > > > linux-os wrote: > > > > > > > > Hello anybody maintaining NTFS, > > > > > > > > I can't write to a NTFS file-system. > > > > > > > > /proc/mounts shows it's mounted RW: > > > > /dev/sdd1 /mnt ntfs > > > > rw,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1 > > > > 0 0 > > > > > > > > .config shows RW support. > > > > > > > > CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m > > > > # CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set > > > > CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y > > > > > > > > Errno is 1 (Operation not permitted), even though root. > > > > > > What are trying to write? AFAIK, the (new) NTFS module only > > > allows one kind of writing: overwriting an existing file, as > > > long as its size doesn't change. > > > > Huh? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about > > the NTFS that Windows/NT and later versions puts on its > > file-systems. I use an USB external disk with my M$ Laptop > > and I have always been able to transfer data to/from > > my machines using that drive. Now I can't. The drive it > > writable under M$, but I can't even delete anything > > (no permission for root) under Linux. > > You must have had it formatted as VFAT in the past. There is now way you
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> were writing to an NTFS drive from Linux (unless you were using Captive > NTFS or one of the commercially available drivers). > > Best regards, > > Anton >
Best regards,
Anton -- Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @) Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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