NTFS Writting...what a m....

[Stuart Brameld]

Would be interested to hear feedback from a couple of people who are
using / have used captive ntfs, I got the impression that writing to
NTFS volumes from linux was very risky?

The Linux NTFS project haven't implemented write functionality yet and
in their FAQS re. writing to NTFS volumes it says:

"The possibility of destroying your filesystem is very high. The new
driver, introduced in 2.5.11, has some write code, but it's very
limited. The driver can overwrite existing files, but it cannot change
the length, add new or delete existing files."

Stu

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Dalloz [mailto:ad+lists at uni-x.org] 
Sent: 17 May 2005 16:10
To: For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: NTFS Writting...what a m....

Am Di, den 17.05.2005 schrieb Ferrero Horacio um 16:14:

> Is anybody using the captive-ntfs thing ?
> I've installed captive-1.1.5 but if I use the captive-ntfs file system
> type, mount complains that I need to issue the mount of a NTFS
partition
> using the following:
> 
> --W32 filesystem .sys module not
> --found: /usr/local/var/lib/captive/ntfs.sys at
/sbin/mount.captive-ntfs
> line 65.

> Horacio

The NTFS driver ntfs.sys is located where it is expected
(/usr/local/var/lib/captive/ntfs.sys). The error message indicates you
did not copy it from your licensed Windows(r).

Alexander


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