Hi all;
I have a problem in writing files (and modifying partitions contents)on my windows partitions mounted on my linux distro.
i am not allowed to delete files on my ntfs partitions nor add files to them. although i modified the fstab entries of my ntfs partitions to rw instead of the default ro. my fstab is the following:
- This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs rw,umask=0,nls=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d ntfs rw,umask=0,nls=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
I have a Mandriva 2006 free distro on an HP Compaq nc 6110 laptop.
if anybody can help me, i will be very grateful ..
thanx alot
thats because the ntfs
thats because the ntfs driver that comes with the linux kernel is a read only driver, writing to ntfs is not supported yet.
there are experimental ntfs drivers that allow writing, maybe others here have more experience with them.
Linux can write to a fat32 partition though.
Alaa
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Two ways.
There are two ways to gain read/write acces to ntfs partitions:
1- captive-ntfs which uses an emulation layer over the windows ntfs driver. I have used this solution many times, and has proven to be stable.
However, there are license issues as you must own a windows license to ( legally ) use the windows kernel with this solution.
2- libntfs and fuse are a new solution which I haven't tried, but don't suffer from the legal inhibitions as the previous solution.