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

[linux-os]

On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, 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. 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.
>
> You must have had it formatted as VFAT in the past.  There is now way you
> were writing to an NTFS drive from Linux (unless you were using Captive
> NTFS or one of the commercially available drivers).
>
> Best regards,
>
> 	Anton

I thought maybe that was so, so I tried to format it as a
FAT-32 drive and W$ complained that it was too large. So
I thought, I would just partition it, but I never partitioned
it to two logical drives before before so I don't know
what's changed (it's W/2000). Right now, I am partitioning
it to two slices and formatting it with FAT-32.

I've been using this since linux had USB and Firewire
controllers. I really don't know what has changed.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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