From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262483AbUKDWnb (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:43:31 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262480AbUKDWlB (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:41:01 -0500 Received: from alog0209.analogic.com ([208.224.220.224]:3456 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262483AbUKDWjX (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:39:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:38:53 -0500 (EST) From: linux-os Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Anton Altaparmakov cc: Giuseppe Bilotta , Linux kernel Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by John Ashcroft. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.