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Cc: Giuseppe Bilotta <bilotta78@hotpop.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system.
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From: Mathieu Segaud <matt@minas-morgul.org>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:46:21 +0100
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linux-os <linux-os@chaos.analogic.com> disait dernièrement que :

> On Thu, 4 Nov 2004, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>

> Huh? Are we talking about the same thing?

yes

> 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.

Taken from kernel help in *config:
"The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing
the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is
possible..."

Best,

Mathieu

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