On 2003-02-26 Eran Mann wrote: > Shlomi Fish wrote: > >I think the default compilation option of NTFS is read-only and that > >read-write is experimental. To enable it, you need to recompile this > >module. I think.
[...] > It is marked as DANGEROUS, not EXPERIMENTAL. And IIRC in 2.4.x it's > actually supposed to eat your partition. I believe in 2.5.x it's > supposed to be more resonable, but it's still marked DANGEROUS. I > havn't tried enabling it though... FWIW, read-write is dangerous, but only if the write action *modifies* the structure of the filesystem, not when it just modifies the content of an existing file. It is quite easy to have write acces to unused space on an ntfs partition, by loopback mounting ext2 on some large existing ntfs file: I created in windoze, on a large ntfs partition (that would otherwise be unused and not writable from linux) a very large file (couple of gigabytes). Admitted, I can't accesss it from windoze, but who cares :). This requires me to mount the ntfs 'rw', but I am careful to not really write.. (I mount it as root, so usually I feel safe as a regular user) I did have to patch my kernel (2.4.20) with the 'new' ntfs driver. (ntfs-2.x is the new version) # mount | grep ntfs /dev/hda1 on /ntfs type ntfs (rw) /ntfs/do_not_delete on /loopntfs type ext2 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,loop=/dev/loop0) # grep ntfs /etc/fstab /dev/hda1 /ntfs ntfs noauto,rw 0 0 /ntfs/do_not_delete /loopntfs ext2 noauto,user,rw,loop 0 0 # dmesg |grep -i ntfs NTFS driver 2.1.0a [Flags: R/W]. ftape v3.04d 25/11/97 for Linux 2.4.20preempt-ntfs (plus a couple of unicode errors) ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
