Writing to NTFS with Fedora core 1
I would like to know how to write to an NTFS drive.
I am just wondering if there is a solution which does not involve recompiling the kernel. Any help ius appreciated |
Yes, there is a solution without recompiling the kernel, check this out and download your RPM:
NTFS 4 RedHat9 Read the instructions first! Hope it helped! Boby |
You should *NEVER* Write to ntfs in Linux!
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THe RPM doesnt support writing to NTFS
I already downloaded that RPM, it only supports reading NTFS, it doesnt support writing to NTFS.
Why is it so dangeropus to write to NTFS Thanx for the help so farr |
Writing to NTFS is a dangerous thing to do through Linux.
This is because NTFS is a proprietary file system developed by Microsoft. They have not released details about how it works. The developers of the RPM you downloaded have had to reverse-engineer the file system in order to read it, and writing to it is difficult as there are many records to update on the disk. The way I like to transfer files between Fedora Core 2 and WinXP is using a small (2GB) fat32 partition (which both XP and Linux can read and write safely to). |
You can write to NTFS from Linux safely using this package:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ |
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