Re: Mounting NTFS partitions
From: NicK (nospam_at_emirates.net.ae)
Date: 12/25/03
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Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 00:16:07 +1400
Bit Twister wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:20:29 -0800, Rhyader wrote:
>
>>I have for a year now been using SUSE linux to back up windows
>>on my older computer. It runs windows 95 and suse 7. This week
>>I installed suse 7 on my Dad's newer computer, command line only.
>>This computer has Windows XP, 2 hard drives, Suse in partition 2
>>on drive 2, and I use a lilo floppy to boot linux. No problems
>>except this: I cannot mount the windows partition write-enabled.
>>I type the command to do so, something like
>>mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1
>>mount -t ntfs /dev/hdd1 /mnt/win2
>>and then I can see the windows partitions. But if I try to copy
>>from drive1-partition1 to drive2-partition1 linux always says
>>that the file system is read-only. I have tried other mount switches
>>(cant remember them now, like -r -w whatever) that are supposed to
>>make the partition read-write, but it does not work. How can I mount
>>a NTFS partition so that linux will write on it?
>>
>> Chris rhyader2@hotmail.com
>
>
> Hmmmm, I had no idea that NTFS writes were safe and in current linux
> production releases let alone Suse 7.
>
If Microsoft realised that there was a serious need for NTFS support in
Linux, they might as well come up with Microsoft Linux but they would
never even think of giving out their NTFS driver for free :-(
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