Hi, I was wondering if somebody could give me an example of setting up a r/w NTFS mount in the /etc/fstab file. Yeah yeah, I know it's dangerous. We all need to risk something sometimes, :-).

No, it wont work. I've tried.

Therion12 wrote:
You know Therion, that is not a even an attempt at being helpful, just stupid.

Now ksw, I will see if I can help you.

The first thing you need to do is compile a new kernel with NTFS read/write enabled. Not to be mean, but do you know how to compile a kernel? I dont know how advanced you are.

Well, once you create a new kernel and it works, you need to mount the drive/partition. I am sorry, but I dont know the command line keystrokes off the top of my head for NTFS, but I can tell you how to do it using Linuxconf.

Just let me know.

Heh, yes, I know how to compile a kernel. Actually this isn't a problem of mine, it was for a friend. I know I can just slap the mount command mounting a ntfs partition as r/w to rc.local, I just wanted to know if you could do that in the /etc/fstab file. The kernel already had ntfs read and write enabled. I guess I'll just have to tell him to use rc.local. Thanks anyway

will something like

/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs rw,defaults 0 0

not work? it should be listed in the man page for mount

Sorry i was in a hurry so i only could type one line but what i meant is that yes you can set the rw command in the /etc/fstab file for a NTFS drive/partition but the changes dont work, and file managers and the terminal just ignore the line for some reason.

If you can find a trick, cool. From my experience its a bad idea to put in the "rw" in the fstab and then trying to save on it from something like GIMP.

why don't you just go outside and play football like the other kids? If you're in a hurry, DON'T reply to stuff, it only makes things worse. especially when you don't know enough about what you're talking about.

i've never needed to use ntfs, but i had a look round, and i couldn't really find much info about rw. on the sourceforge homepage for ntfs they say you should always mount shares specifally as readonly only with an -r option to 'mount', so IF you've compiled in write support in the kernel, then i guess it'll let you write. they do say it is LIKELY to mess up data tho....

I think it is probably almost a sure thing that it will trash the data.

Unless you are doing it for good reason
(I can't think of a good reason for trashing your nt drive) You should not do it until it is stable.

There are still too many issues that are not "it may not work" but "does not work"

If your lucky it may only become unreadable by linux, if not it's toast.