NTFS compatibility 1

[flawless69]

anyone know when/if the ability to write to NTFS is going to be implemented into the kernel? --Derek

"Fear not the storm for this is where we grow strong."

 

[xutopia]

If you ask me I say it's pretty much as soon as Microsoft releases information on how to access an NTFS. They keep it secret so that only they have access to it and stop other operating systems from writing to it. Yet another way they use their monopoly to stop everyone else except them from succeeding. Gary

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Haran

 

[flawless69]

Yeah I figured as much, but the hope was there that the Linux guys had gotten some info... --Derek

"Fear not the storm for this is where we grow strong."

 

[amikeliunas]

NTFS is RO by default but you can enable RW, which is dangerous because NT does not know about Linux. See the NT password changing utility at

http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/bootdisk.html

as an example of a kernel with WRITE support enabled.

-NTFS write support (DANGEROUS)
-CONFIG_NTFS_RW
- If you say Y here, you will (maybe) be able to write to NTFS file
- systems as well as read from them. The read-write support in NTFS
- is far from being complete and is not well tested. If you say Y
- here, back up your NTFS volume first, since it will probably get
- damaged. Also, download the Linux-NTFS project distribution from
- Sourceforge at <

http://linux-ntfs.sf.net/>

and always run the
- included ntfsfix utility after writing to an NTFS partition from
- Linux to fix some of the damage done by the driver. You should run
- ntfsfix _after_ unmounting the partition in Linux but _before_
- rebooting into Windows. When Windows next boots, chkdsk will be
- run automatically to fix the remaining damage.
- Please note that write support is limited to Windows NT4 and
- earlier versions.

see also

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/status.html#ntfstools

NTFS - New Driver
Status
Read support has been completed and tested and the driver is in the 2.5.x kernel series since 2.5.11.
The driver is much faster and cleaner than the old one, hence a better platform for new development.
A backport to the 2.4 kernel series is available from our downloads page


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Linux1@USA.COM