garudad Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Hi, i've noticed that there is read support for NTFS partitions in mandrake 10.0. However, when i check my windows partition, i'm not able to write anything to it. Should I enable it somewhere? Thx in advance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 writing to NTFS is extremely experimental (hence very dangerous), so most distributions do not allow it. you may be able to do it as root, but _it is highly suggested that you dont_, you could corrupt and or lose data. if you can't do it as root, you would have to compile your own kernel to add the support... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garudad Posted March 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 Very stange, why do they add it to their feature list as like a big step forward? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 12, 2004 Report Share Posted March 12, 2004 (edited) add what? reading or writing? from what i've read, the 2.6 kernel (which is default in MDK 10) supports -limited- writing to NTFS partitions. This indicates it's still not fully functional. either way, you may find this of interest: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/ Edited March 12, 2004 by tyme Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
afrosheen Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Linux has been able to read ntfs for awhile, but writing is still experimental and off by default. Why, you ask? Microsoft has changed the NTFS spec at least 5 times now. Each time it's changed it has to be reverse engineered and the changes backported so the new ntfs read/write code doesn't break the code for older versions of NTFS. The problem is that NTFS is a moving target. It's hard to RevEng something that keeps mutating all the time. Fat32 and all the other filesystems (there are dozens) that linux can read/write to are all dead or stable. The fault lies not with linux developers but with big M themselves. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted March 13, 2004 Report Share Posted March 13, 2004 Currently Linux's NTFS support so i've heard somewhere is limited to editing existing files and not creating new ones, and these file's lengths may not change. It is also capable of deleting files. It can do the above with high risk to your NTFS partition. So if you are feeling suicidal and wanna remove windows the fun way by corrupting it file by file -- Go for it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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