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07-14-2006, 01:06 PM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Egypt
Distribution: slackware + XP
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write to ntfs
hi every body
i have sw10.2 but i can't write to my ntfs drivers????
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07-14-2006, 01:09 PM
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Registered: Sep 2004
Location: Nashville
Distribution: Manjaro, RHEL, CentOS
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Have you mounted the drivers? Are they local or are the on a network?
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07-14-2006, 01:24 PM
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Bakersfield, California
Distribution: CentOS 5.3, FreeBSD 7.2, Fedora 11
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Are you using a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?
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07-14-2006, 01:26 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Campinas/SP - Brazil
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Write support to NTFS is not stable and is not enabled by default. You need to recompile the kernel to enable it, but I strongly advice you that is a bad ideia.
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07-14-2006, 01:26 PM
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Registered: Jun 2004
Location: Argentina (SR, LP)
Distribution: Slackware
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You can't by default and it's not recommended unless you use a third party driver (I don't remember their names, but you'll have to search for it).
As Microsoft never released NTFS specifications all you can get from open source efforts are read and overwrite access to NTFS filesystem. That means, you can read, and change the content but not the size of files that already exists (and this is still beta).
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07-14-2006, 01:37 PM
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Registered: Dec 2005
Location: Campinas/SP - Brazil
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There is a commercial driver from Paragon.
Check http://www.ntfs-linux.com/
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07-14-2006, 02:09 PM
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Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Egypt
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Voltar
Are you using a 2.4 or 2.6 kernel?
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i am using kernal 2.4 but does it differ if i use 2.6
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07-14-2006, 02:09 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jstephens84
Have you mounted the drivers? Are they local or are the on a network?
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they are local
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07-14-2006, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by marozsas
Write support to NTFS is not stable and is not enabled by default. You need to recompile the kernel to enable it, but I strongly advice you that is a bad ideia.
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then shall i convert my ntfs to fat32???
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07-14-2006, 02:13 PM
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Location: Nashville
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Is there a tool that will convert ntfs to fat32. I know you can go fat32 to ntfs though.
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07-14-2006, 02:15 PM
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Location: Bakersfield, California
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I don't think you can go from NTFS to FAT32, and to the best of my knowledge the 2.6 Kernels have better support for NTFS. It still is a bad idea to use it because it could lead to data corruption.
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07-14-2006, 02:21 PM
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Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Central Florida 20 minutes from Disney World
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Quote:
Originally Posted by ahmed gamal
then shall i convert my ntfs to fat32???
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Hi,
Can you shrink your ntfs and create a fat32 partition to allow you to share files with linux?
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07-14-2006, 02:28 PM
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Location: Egypt
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look man transfering from ntfs to fat isn't impossible
it is very easy u can use partion magic 8 u can find it if u use torrent
if u want to change from fat to ntfs open the dos and write
convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs
for example convert D: /fs:ntfs
this will make drive D ntfs driver
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07-14-2006, 02:56 PM
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Registered: Jun 2006
Distribution: FC5, FC3, RHEL 3, Debian 3.1, Debian 3.0
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Hi ahmed gamal,
Writing to NTFS is not a good idea. But if you are absolutely sure that you want to do it, then you can use Captive NTFS. You can get it here : -
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
With Regards,
Theorist
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07-14-2006, 03:25 PM
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what i want to ask why it isn't a good idea to write to ntfs???
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