[expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Paschalis Pagonidis
Hi, I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake version is 7.0 (it doesn't support Write priviledges to NTFS), but I compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the problem remains!!! I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to all files at the

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Greg Stewart
As far as I know there are *no* versions of linux, unix, or other OSes that support writing to an NTFS volume that do not risk damaging the file system. The best you can do, with any assurance that your files will still be there in the morning, is read. There is a utility on the market that will

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote: Hi, I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I compiled the new kernel 2.2.16 which supports it. But the

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Pascal Grossé
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote: Hi, I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake version is 7.0 (it doesn't support "Write" priviledges to NTFS), but I compiled the

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 05:12:17PM +0200, Pascal Grossé wrote: On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 10:25:47AM +0300, Paschalis Pagonidis wrote: Hi, I can only read to NTFS but can't write even as root. My Mandrake version is 7.0

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread stephen boulet
Configure your NFS partition via Webmin. It makes it much easier; you can set the permissions to the file there (read only, rw, etc.). Also, you can limit who sees the volume. One gotcha is that you normally can't mount a NFS volume as root. But using webmin on the computer with the volume,

Re: [expert] Write to NTFS?

2000-09-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
I' ve heard that kernel puts some default priviledges to all files at the NTFS partition at startup. How can I change them? Is that the right solution? If you value your NTFS partition at all, I would *strongly* suggest NOT enabling write on it. It's still marked "very experimental" for a