Mandrake 10 and ntfs partitions

Cetrocet · 05-21-2004, 05:43 PM

I need to be able to access my ntfs partition from linux. I have one partition with Windows XP installed, one with Mandrake 10 installed, and a third for data (ie code for my cross platform project) that unfortunalety is ntfs. Right now Mandrake 10 considers it to be a windows partition. In fact under /mnt it's shown as "win_d".

Because it's considered a window's partition, write access is turned off. I know you can get around this with "mount -remount,rw /mnt/win_d", but could anyone tell me if there's any known dangers of Mandrake writing to an ntfs partition? Will Bad Things (tm) happen?

I'd like to be fairly certain it's safe before I risk losing a ton of data

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Linux.tar.gz · 05-21-2004, 07:04 PM

Unless captive installed, you can't really write anything on NTFS. Even with 2.6.6 kernel.
You'd better change to fat32. If cfdisk don't work, try parted.

filesiteguy · 06-18-2004, 10:22 AM

I have a similar issue -- disc 1 is NTFS with NT 5 and disc 2 is Mandrake 10 + swap.

Is Fat32 safe? I only know of it running under Windows 98 Se2 and Me. I formatted my drive NTFS because I have many years experience with it (and it's predecessor, HPFS).

Ph0enix2003 · 06-18-2004, 10:50 AM

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Originally posted by Cetrocet
I need to be able to access my ntfs partition from linux. I have one partition with Windows XP installed, one with Mandrake 10 installed, and a third for data (ie code for my cross platform project) that unfortunalety is ntfs. Right now Mandrake 10 considers it to be a windows partition. In fact under /mnt it's shown as "win_d".

Because it's considered a window's partition, write access is turned off. I know you can get around this with "mount -remount,rw /mnt/win_d", but could anyone tell me if there's any known dangers of Mandrake writing to an ntfs partition? Will Bad Things (tm) happen?

I'd like to be fairly certain it's safe before I risk losing a ton of data /

I don't think it's safe and you'll probably need to recompile the kernel with NTFS-write support in order to get it working.

filesiteguy · 06-18-2004, 11:27 AM

Recompile with NTFS-write support -- got it.

I'll look that up. This will by my first recompile. Cool!

Thanks!!!

Mau · 06-18-2004, 11:47 AM

I can access files fine from the /mnt/windows folder... with FAT32 and NTFS. I just can't use Windows to access EXT3.

bart59 · 07-01-2004, 08:01 AM

if you want to acced to your ext2 parition from linux, just use a softqwaqre called explore2fs. then you will be able to read you linux HD. ( but not write)

Is the recompilation is wotking for writing on NTFS ?
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jiml8 · 09-19-2004, 09:24 PM

This package safely provides write capability from Linux to NTFS

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

lucaeffe · 03-30-2005, 04:24 PM

I have an other problem with NTFS.
When I mount an ext3 partition on /mnt/hda4, all users can access the directory and see the contents of the partition.
Partition is mount in /etc/fstab with this string:
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 auto defaults 0 0

When I try to mount a NTFS partition on the same folder (without mounting the ext3 partition, obviously!), the content is accessible only to the root user.

How can I solve the problem?

Thanks in advance!