'Operation not permitted' on firewire/NTFS external HD

[Paul Howarth]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 06:19, 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?

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2

3.2 Can the Driver write to an NTFS volume, too?

Not really, but if you only need to copy files from Linux to Windows on
a dual-boot machine, see "How to write to NTFS" below for a possible way
to work around the lack of write support. For write support in Linux,
read on. 

There are two drivers, currently. The original driver, in 2.4 has some
write code in it, but it is extremely dangerous to use it. The
possibility of destroying your filesystem is very high. 

The new driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very
limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change
the length, add new or delete existing files. 

Adding write support will take a long time. NTFS is built like a
database. Any changes you make, necessitate making changes in many
places, for consistancy. Make a mistake and the filesystem will be
damaged, make too many mistakes and the filesystem will be destroyed.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>