Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system.

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

linux-os wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
> 
> > linux-os wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello anybody maintaining NTFS,
> >>
> >> I can't write to a NTFS file-system.
> >>
> >> /proc/mounts shows it's mounted RW:
> >> /dev/sdd1 /mnt ntfs rw,uid=0,gid=0,fmask=0177,dmask=077,nls=utf8,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1 0 0
> >>
> >> .config shows RW support.
> >>
> >> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
> >> # CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set
> >> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
> >>
> >> Errno is 1 (Operation not permitted), even though root.
> >
> > What are trying to write? AFAIK, the (new) NTFS module only
> > allows one kind of writing: overwriting an existing file, as
> > long as its size doesn't change.
> 
> Huh? Are we talking about the same thing? I'm talking about
> the NTFS that Windows/NT and later versions puts on its
> file-systems.

So am I.

> I use an USB external disk with my M$ Laptop
> and I have always been able to transfer data to/from
> my machines using that drive. Now I can't. The drive it
> writable under M$, but I can't even delete anything
> (no permission for root) under Linux.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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                  (Roger Waters)

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