Writing to NTFS with Fedora core 1

Gaweph · 09-19-2004, 02:52 PM

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

Boby · 09-19-2004, 03:19 PM

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

omes · 09-19-2004, 03:26 PM

You should *NEVER* Write to ntfs in Linux!

Gaweph · 09-19-2004, 04:27 PM

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

bornhj · 09-19-2004, 06:33 PM

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).

jiml8 · 09-19-2004, 08:25 PM

You can write to NTFS from Linux safely using this package:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/