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From: Jan K. <rcp...@ja...> - 2004-02-04 20:30:46
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Hi, On Wed, 04 Feb 2004 13:38:05 +0100, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote: ... > There are two different open source NTFS kernel drivers. In short, the old > one has broken NTFS write support (it's not for production use), the > rewritten NTFS source base has very limited write support ... > Or from the kernel source > > http://lxr.linux.no/source/fs/Kconfig?v=2.6.1 > > config NTFS_RW > bool "NTFS write support" > This enables the partial, but safe, write support in the NTFS driver. > The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without > changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or > renaming is possible [...] > > I can't find lies here. If you have idea what/where to improve/correct > the wording or "lies", please let us know. Fine, this is correct now. I was referring to the text: Linux Kernel v2.4.21-pre5-ac3 Configuration 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. If unsure, say N. where a full read/write support is claimed while the filesystem operations are missing there. Regards, Lace -- Jan Kratochvil; Captive: free r/w NTFS Filesystem; http://www.jankratochvil.net/ |
