writing to windoze partition

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 16:00 +0200, Liloulinx wrote:
> Globe Trotter wrote:
> 
> >--- Thomas Springer <th.springer at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Hello
> >>
> >>
> >>On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
> >>Globe Trotter wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>I have the ntfs kernel installed and the following line in my /etc/
> >>>fstab. 
> >>>
> >>>/dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    rw,defaults,umask=0222  0 0
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Why did you apply this umask?
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
> >>>The windoze partition mounts okay and I can change directories, etc.
> >>>
> >>>cd /media/windows/Documents and Settings/globe/Desktop
> >>>
> >>>However, I am unable to copy files to it on linux (FC4). What do I
> >>>have to do to be able to do this?
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>I think it's because you have to change umask to sth like 022
> >> 
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Thanks! But no, did not work, sorry! 
> >
> >%cp small.pdf /media/windows/Documents\ and\ Settings/globe/Desktop/
> >cp: cannot create regular file `/media/windows/Documents and
> >Settings/globe/Desktop/small.pdf': Read-only file system
> >
> >Any other help, please?
> >Many thanks!
> >
> >
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> In 2.4 kernel we can mount an ntfs partition system just for reading, we 
> can not write. Perhaps it's the same thing with FC4 (2.6 kernel). I'm 
> not sure but it may be.!!!

The Linux NTFS module has very limited write support.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/rpm/rel26.html

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