On Mon, 19 Jun 2006, MIGUEL GONZALEZ CASTANYOS wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am running a Debian 2.6.8-2 kernel and I have checked which ntfs
> support I have:
>
> NTFS volume version 3.0.
>
> I have tried to mount a NTFS partition with rw support but I always get
> from catting /proc/mounts:
>
> /dev/hda5 /datos ntfs
> ro,noatime,nodiratime,uid=0,gid=0,umask=077,nls=cp437,errors=continue,mft_zone_multiplier=1
> 0 0
>
> I am not sure, but I assume that using 2.6.x kernel series has the
> kernel module included so mounting with:
>
> mount -t ntfs -o rw /dev/hda5 /datos
>
> would be sufficient. Am I wrong? Do I need to patch my kernel? Do I
> need to download something else? I have been looking around your website
> and your FAQ but It is still no clear to me.
You are using the kernel driver which has only limited write support. It
can only overwrite existing files. If that is enough for you then check
out the output of: dmesg
after running the mount command. It will tell you why it is mounting
read-only instead of read-write.
Also the driver may be compiled read-only, you can check this by doing
dmesg | grep -i ntfs
And looking whether the bit about after the driver version says R/O or
R/W.
Finally if you want to be able to create/delete files/directories you need
to use ntfsmount and not the kernel ntfs driver for now. See
www.linux-ntfs.org for details. (Just search for ntfsmount there is a
FAQ somehwere not sure where...)
Best regards,
Anton
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Anton Altaparmakov <aia21 at cam.ac.uk> (replace at with @)
Unix Support, Computing Service, University of Cambridge, CB2 3QH, UK
Linux NTFS maintainer, http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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