why cant i write to my ntfs partition?

slinky2004 · 12-27-2005, 01:19 AM

i'm dual booting windows and arch linux and i want to write a file onto my windows drive from linux. the problem is that no matter how i mount it, i've tried

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mount -o rw

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mount -w

it always gives me a "this is a read only filesystem" error when i try to copy a file to it. i have ntfs support compiled into my kernel and i thought that ntfs writing was pretty stable under linux by now. can anybody tell me how i can write to my ntfs volume from linux?

xgreen · 12-27-2005, 02:16 AM

make sure the ntfs write support enable in kernel setting. remember, it still not safe writing to ntfs filesystem. i would like to recommend to use fat32 instead which safe to read & write.

cs-cam · 12-27-2005, 02:23 AM

That is the kernels way of telling you that there are millions of linux users everywhere screaming "DON'T DO IT!!!", look out you're window and you might see the skywriting I ordered just before. It's not stable, go buy a 512MB USB drive or create a FAT32 partition somewhere on your disk.