According to the linux ntfs driver project (http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net), you can write to NTFS partitions as long as the filesize is >512b and you don't change the file size, but they caution it's experimental. There's another project, captive, that seeks a similar goal (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/). It has been reported to allow write access to NTFS partitions used by WinXP, but not those used by NT and W2K. Don't know how reliable it is. I have an ext3 partition that I share between W2K and linux. On the w2k side I use Paragon software's mount ntfs, a proprietary ext2/3 driver for win2k/XP that allows full read/write access to ntfs partitions. Using a fat32 partition also works, but requires periodic defragmenting, which ext2/3 are not. Finally for NTFS partitions on a remonte machine, use Samba and set up the Lin box as a server. HTH Paul
On Friday 30 April 2004 09:00 am, Chuck MATTSEN wrote: > On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 05:33 -0700, David Lasry wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am new to this mailing list. I run Mandrake 10 and > > have complete read access to all my NTFS partitions. > > I was wondering how i can set it up so that i have > > write access as well. > > > > Any help is welcome > > The conventional wisdom seems to be that it shouldn't be attempted, as > it's not well enough supported <yet?> and is rather risky. If you need > to read and write data from both Windows and Linux, better to set up a > shared FAT partition for doing so.
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