difference betwee ntfs and ntfs-3g
in my /etc/fstab file my windows drives are mounted as ntfs partitions..
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=000 0 0 i wonder,should i change the filesystem type as ntfs-3g? what is its advantage or disadvantage over ntfs ??? |
My understanding is the ntfs-3g driver has read-write capabilities; the ntfs one only read.
So long as the appropriate packages are installed, you should be good to go. |
ntfs-3g is 'filesystem driver' for ntfs file systems, it is very reliable and allows read AND write access to ntfs volumes. If I remember correctly 'ntfs' driver is read only, anyway if you only need read access then stick to 'ntfs', for writing I would only use ntfs-3g.
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i have set umask=000 ie all permissions are given for user,group and others |
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but beleive me...i am able to write in my windows partitions through ntfs only...
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i have dmask set to 000
which gives any user of linux full access(r/rw) to windows ntfs partitions |
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I am compiling gcc right now, when that's done (hopefully 1 hour or so) I will compile the ntfs tools and test this on a loopback filesystem. |
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Ubuntu, Fedora and some other distributions use NTFS-3G for both the ntfs and ntfs-3g filesystem type for better backwards compatibility.
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That would definitely explain it. I created a loopback file system into a file on my home, formatter it with ntfs, and mounted it. I wasn't able to create anything on it, though the logs show how it was mounted R/W. So I must assume that you are using ntfs-3g or/and a custom kernel patchset for the ntfs stuff.
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I also tried to force my ntfs file system to read-write with the ntfs driver, and I was still unable to write anything.
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