Read/write to Win Drive

[mskarl]

I mounted my windows drive win NTFS I can't write any files to it.  I have read only access.  I tried logging in as root and still no luck.  Any ideas?

[mskarl]

Oops I forgot to include I'm running SuSE 7.2.

[jtpenrod]

I'm afraid that that's as good as it's going to get. NTFS is a proprietary M$ thing that Linux can't fully support. You can read a NTFS part from Linux, but you won't be able to write to it. There's nothing at this time that can be done about it (unless you delete the NTFS part and do a reinstall with it formatted VFAT).

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[Calum]

obviously, NTFS was an attempt not at creating a more stable file system than fat/fat32, but at excluding any other systems from accessing the filesystem.

VFAT is too easy for linux to use, so NTFS addresses the issue by being exclusionist for anything except winnt (since, as you say, it's a proprietary filesystem).

Of course many people will think this is a problem with linux, forgetting conveniently that not only can their windows installation not use their ext2 and ext3 partitions, it can't even see them!

[voidmain]

Actually Linux *can* write to NTFS partitions. It's just not enabled in the kernel by default and most Linux distros don't even turn on NTFS support at all. If you want read/write support you'll have to turn it on in the kernel source and recompile.  I must warn you that it is very buggy at this time and you could damage your NTFS partition. Progress on making this reliable seems to be going very slowly.  It's like none of the kernel developers care about this one...

[Calum]

sorry about that, i knew it could read and write to ntfs discs/partitions, but it claims to be "very experimental" so, having heard one or two grim tales, i reckon that for endusers like myself, best to forget ntfs access for now.

Do you reckon, VoidMain, that it's because nobody can be bothered making this support more stable? i assumed that it was because they had made the ntfs somehow more inaccessible than vfat to someone who hadn't been told what was going on...

[mskarl]

Thanks Guys.  I'll burn the info I backed up on a CD and then tranport it to that shitty MS box.  

Well I was reading lastnight about Apache.  My default install came with Apache installed and I'm trying to figure out how to uninstall or delete it.  I want to start off clean and then put a newer version on.  I tried just installing the new version but seamed to have problems.  Like when I try to start/stop Apache it say's command not found.  But I know the apachect1 file is there because I can see it.
  Can anyone give me an idea of where to delete files and what script to modify so that I can cleanly remove it?  I'm new to the idea of not having to un-install and modify your reg if you really want it gone.

[voidmain]

Well, NT/2K can also run on FAT partitions (NT on FAT16 only, not FAT32).  Of course you would have to reinstall NT to make this happen but then you could transfer files between them. Another option is to download this free utility that can run under Windows that will read your ext2 Linux partition (if you are running ext2/ext3). It's like a file manager that can browse your Linux partition and copy data from it. I can't for the life of my remember the name of it but if you do a google search carefully you should be able to find it.  It actually worked, I was surprised.

[ March 20, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]