From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262312AbUKDRmf (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:42:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262322AbUKDRmR (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:42:17 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39863 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262319AbUKDRk4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 4 Nov 2004 12:40:56 -0500 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Giuseppe Bilotta Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system. Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2004 18:40:17 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: host186-250.pool8248.interbusiness.it User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/2.70.2067 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 Can't you see It all makes perfect sense Expressed in dollar and cents Pounds shillings and pence (Roger Waters)