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Old 06-05-2010, 07:32 AM   #1
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Thumbs down Why can't SystemRescueCD mount NTFS for write?

It only mounts NTFS as read-only file system... Even with "-w" argument.
 
Old 06-05-2010, 09:14 AM   #2
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The kernel NTFS driver is read-only. If you want read/write access, you need to mount it with NTFS-3G, not the "mount" command.
 
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Is there NTFS-3G in SystemRescueCD?
 
Old 06-05-2010, 10:29 AM   #4
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Yes, you can see the list of included packages here.
 
Old 06-05-2010, 11:41 AM   #5
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If you really need a complete NTFS Write support, you will have to use Ntfs-3g. It's very easy to use:

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

Provided you've already created the destination mount point, /mnt/windows, and which device is your NTFS drive, /dev/sda1.
 
Old 06-05-2010, 11:51 AM   #6
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The NTFS volume may have a "dirty flag". If that is the case, I would not force it to mount but rather get a boot cd with CHKDSK and run chkdsk /f, once that is done, you can mount it and write to it.
 
  


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