NTFS writing questions

Magikx21 · 04-27-2005, 11:18 PM

Ok I got this question, I'm using Mandrake 10.1 and KDE and I want to be able to write to my NTFS partitions. The NTFS partitons are mounted but I can only read them. However KDE came with Samba which allows me to write to NTFS partitions on my network. With all this in mind, can I write to the NTFS parttions on my computer and if yes how would I go about doing this.

nhs · 04-27-2005, 11:24 PM

NTFS write support is not yet complete and at present you can only overwrite a file's data (no change file size, create/delete file/dir, etc.). You will probably need to mount -o rw to force read-write and may need to reconfigure the kernel as well (I'm not sure off the top of my head whether mandrake kernels come with read-only or read-write NTFS driver). With SAMBA it is the remote windows machine which is manipulating the on-disk data structures and the smbfs just needs to speak the protocol correctly.

uberNUT69 · 04-27-2005, 11:25 PM

By default, ntfs partitions are setup as read-only, as write support is still classed as experimental.
There is another way however, using captiventfs, which uses the actual win drivers on your system to perform the i/o.
see:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
I do not write to ntfs so can't vouch for either approach.