Linux-NTFS Write Capability

Josh Coffman josh_coffman at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 19 17:09:02 UTC 2005


I dual boot and have a fat32 partition that suits me
for sharing data.

NTFS would be better, since it is a more efficient FS
than fat32. 

--- MJang <mike at mommabears.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 08:32 -0700, Michael A. Peters
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 11:19 -0400, Reuben D.
> Budiardja wrote:
> > > 
> > > If not, what is my option to write to NTFS
> partition from FC 4 ? I am willing 
> > > to take the risk. If the driver is just "good
> enough" or "mostly work", I'll 
> > > try it out.
> > 
> > AFAIK the ntfs module can only write if the size
> of the file does not
> > change, and it has to be compiled with that rather
> useless option.
> 
> I've had some success with
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
> - but it is very very very very very slow. As I
> remember, 1/1000th of
> the speed of a standard write via Samba is no
> exaggeration.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
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