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From: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Linux-2.6.9 won't allow a write to a NTFS file-system.
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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 

s/now/no/

> were writing to an NTFS drive from Linux (unless you were using Captive 
> NTFS or one of the commercially available drivers).
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> 	Anton
> 

Best regards,

	Anton
-- 
Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer / IRC: #ntfs on irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/ & http://www-stu.christs.cam.ac.uk/~aia21/