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Can we write to an NTFS partition?
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| Kevin 2002-10-02, 12:50 pm |
| Or is it just read only
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| Richard Adams 2002-10-02, 12:50 pm |
| In article <ancj72$coq$1@dns3.cae.ca>, "Kevin" <kevin_baker_@hotmail.com>
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> Or is it just read only
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Basicly READ-ONLY
This is a FAQ, please read the kernel documentation in
/usr/src/linux/Documantation
You can however mount an NTFS partition in fat, msdos or vfat mode at
least AFAIK you can, in read-only.
Write support is experimental, it all explained in the docs.
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Regards Richard
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| Chris Share 2002-10-02, 12:50 pm |
| On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:42:32 +0000, Richard Adams said:
>You can however mount an NTFS partition in fat, msdos or vfat mode at
>least AFAIK you can, in read-only.
What are you on about? The only link between NTFS and the various FAT
systems is they're both done by microsoft...
You can mount an ntfs partition as read only. vfat doesn't come into it
at all...
>Write support is experimental, it all explained in the docs.
Also explained in the docs - very dangerous. If it breaks you get both
pieces...
chris
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| Richard Adams 2002-10-02, 12:51 pm |
| In article <and93a.288.1@ID-37118.user.dfncis.de>, "Chris Share"
<chris@caesium.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Oct 2002 20:42:32 +0000, Richard Adams said:
>>You can however mount an NTFS partition in fat, msdos or vfat mode at
>>least AFAIK you can, in read-only.
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> What are you on about? The only link between NTFS and the various FAT
> systems is they're both done by microsoft... You can mount an ntfs
> partition as read only. vfat doesn't come into it at all...
I was answering a question like you do sometimes.
I jumped the gun as it were, i mounted my (what i thougt) was my XP
partition with;
mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt
It worked, like i knew it would but i did it on the wrong machine, the
machine in question has Win98.
So i possably mislead someone.
I cant try it on the machine with XP as it is lying in peices at the
minute, anyway looks like you cant mount a ntfs partition like one can
mount Win9X into msdos instead of vfat.
SORRY.
Anyway, i would have said, "Are you sure" name.??
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>>Write support is experimental, it all explained in the docs.
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> Also explained in the docs - very dangerous. If it breaks you get both
> pieces...
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> chris
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Regards Richard
pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl
http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/
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| David Dorward 2002-10-02, 12:51 pm |
| Chris Share might have typed:
>>Write support is experimental, it all explained in the docs.
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> Also explained in the docs - very dangerous. If it breaks you get both
> pieces...
Both? Oh I think it would break in to more then two pieces :-D
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David Dorward http://david.us-lot.org/
Keep it in the newsgroup unless you plan to completely change
the subject, I almost never respond to emails if the newsgroup
would have been a more apropriate place to post the message.
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| Chris Share 2002-10-02, 12:51 pm |
| On Wed, 02 Oct 2002 06:25:35 +0000, Richard Adams said:
>I cant try it on the machine with XP as it is lying in peices at the
>minute, anyway looks like you cant mount a ntfs partition like one can
>mount Win9X into msdos instead of vfat.
That's because of the way the different filesystems are arranged...
there are 3 varieties of FAT filesystems (ignoring the
FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 varieties) - msdos, vfat and umsdos.
Msdos is the original, used in DOS < 7. 8.3 naming only, with no
permissions at all - only read-only, hidden flags.
Vfat is the extensions used in DOS 7+ (i.e. win9x) that provides long
names (up to 255 chars IIRC) but still doesn't have any permissions.
Umsdos is unix extensions to msdos, while not natively supported by any
DOS it does allow a unix system on a FAT filesystem, as it provides
proper unix permissions, and longer names.
NTFS is a different filesystem made by microsoft, with long name
support, and access control. Also has some element of journalling too,
BICBW. And since it's so much more complicated than FAT, it hasn't been
fully reverse engineered yet - only enough to provide reliable read
access.
chris
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