'Operation not permitted' on firewire/NTFS external HD
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Aug 31 16:14:04 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:19, CB wrote:
> I have an external firewire drive with an NTFS partition mounted thus:
>
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/ext1 type ntfs (rw)
>
> When I try and create/delete any files or directories under /mnt/ext1, I
> get 'Operation not permitted' (all files & dirs currently there were
> placed under windows xp). I can do these operations fine on a vfat
> partition on the same drive.
>
> Any ideas?
>
NTFS support is currently "read only" with the (possible) exception of
writing to already existing files that does not change the size.
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