How do enable write to my windows files

upchucky · 12-15-2005, 03:42 PM

Hello to the debian gods,

I can read and open my windows files, drive c,(sda2) and drive d,(sda5) i need to write to them, how do i enable write permissions to all files?

BillyGalbreath · 12-15-2005, 03:54 PM

Linux can read/write to fat32 partitions normally as if they were ext2/3.

NTFS however, is a whole other story. I've never been able to write to NTFS. I read that there are some programs that can do it, but are not safe and can easily corrupt data. I think one of these tools is 'captive'. I'm not too sure on this one.

brazilian_user · 12-15-2005, 08:58 PM

If you want you can compile a 2.6 kernel and enable to write in NTFS file system, it's in testing yet, but it's possible.

cs-cam · 12-15-2005, 09:15 PM

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Originally Posted by brazilian_user

If you want you can compile a 2.6 kernel and enable to write in NTFS file system, it's in testing yet, but it's possible.

Yeah, NTFS write is possible in 2.6 kernels if you don't actually want any of the data on the partition. If you kinda wanted to keep all that porn though, you'll need to either dual-boot so you can use Windows to write data onto NTFS or... no, that's it.

KimVette · 12-15-2005, 09:23 PM

er, NTFS write support in the 2.6 kernel is SAFE, unlike the 2.4 kernel. The way this is achieved is that file writing is allowed, PROVIDING the file size is unchanged.

In other words, it's not very usable, but it will NOT repeat NOT damage your NTFS partition.

microsoft/linux · 12-15-2005, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by KimVette

er, NTFS write support in the 2.6 kernel is SAFE, unlike the 2.4 kernel. The way this is achieved is that file writing is allowed, PROVIDING the file size is unchanged.

In other words, it's not very usable, but it will NOT repeat NOT damage your NTFS partition.

unless of course the file size differs...then it's still damaging right? Also look into CaptiveNTFS. I'm not sure how well this works, but look into it.