On Wednesday 16 October 2002 22:30, Satelle, StevenX wrote: > If you really want to write to NTFS and can accept the risks (You have a > regular backup) You can enable write support for ntfs in the kernel config > (its in the fs section) but I wouldn't recommend it. What I have is an ntfs > c drv and a small -1 gig fat32 d drv. It really is a bad idea to write to > ntfs though, win32 and unix do permissions differently you could corrupt > the permissions for everything on the c drv > > -----Original Message----- > From: chris cotsapas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 08:45, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Greetings: > > I can mount my NTFS win-xp partition and read the contents okay, but I > > can > > not write to it (either as user nor superuser). I have tried several > mount > > options but each time touch a file, it reports " Read-only file system." > It > > is odd because I am mounting it as read-write. > > > > At one point, the complaint was something about winXP+ NTFS. Is > > win-xp's > > NTFS not writable from Woody and bf24 kernel? > As others have stated, there is no reliable write support for NTFS. I got > round this problem by converting my Win2k partitions to FAT32, which is > read-writable from linux. > > hth > > Chris
Thanks to all that responded to this inquiry. It was suggested that I convert back to fat32 by several posters. The copy of winXP on this laptop doesn't seem to have that ability. I think it is either the OEM version (gateway 2u) or that M$ doesn't want xp users to have FAT32 native support. I don't know if it is either of these, both of them, or none of them. I don't want to hose the partition at this point. In fact, my desktop just had a mainboard failure so I am now dependant on this little ole brute to get by with until I can come to grips with replacing my not quite 1 year old super computer :( At any rate, thanks again for all the posts. I learned that I like M$ even less then I did when I switched to Linux back in '97 (or was in '96?) :) tatah -- Jaye Inabnit/\ARS ke6sls/\A Debian Gnu/Linux user If it's stupid, but works, it ain't stupid. I SHOUT JUST FOR FUN. Free software, in a free world, for a free spirit. Please Support freedom! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
