NTFS in 2.6.10 kernel

deveraux83 · 12-28-2004, 10:58 AM

I am about to compile the 2.6.10 kernel, am currently using 2.4.26. I was just wondering since the NTFS write support doesn't say experimental anymore, is the 2.6.10 kernel good enough to write to NTFS without errors? Should I enable this option?

masand · 12-28-2004, 12:39 PM

hi there
this is from the kernel configuration

"This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver.

The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without
changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or
renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to
so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot
be written to.

"

regards

stef52 · 12-28-2004, 01:54 PM

Try this for proper NTFS write support:
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

deveraux83 · 12-29-2004, 07:44 AM

Thanks guys!

solveit · 01-14-2005, 03:46 PM

See post by "solveit" at :

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=362166

ZaphyR · 01-15-2005, 03:57 AM

i have installed captive on my gentoo box, and ran this command

Code:

mount -t captive-ntfs /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows

but i still cant create files on the ntfs partition....

keefaz · 01-15-2005, 04:12 AM

Did you try :
mount -t captive-ntfs -o 'umask=0000' /dev/hda4 /mnt/windows

ZaphyR · 01-15-2005, 05:47 AM

thanks, now i managed to create a folder and a text file on the ntfs drive...but when i browse to a folder on my linux drive, and back to the ntfs the system tells me that the new folder/file does not exist...
so there are still problems with this...i am starting to think that converting to fat32 is not such a bad idea...

keefaz · 01-15-2005, 09:54 AM

Yes fat32 is a more reliable choice for sharing files between windows and linux, the more
profesionnal IMHO