Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine

[hnugz]

Is this possible?  I have a file I want to transfer to a usb hard drive that is ntfs.  I can see the drive just fine and copy files from the ntfs drive to the linux drive but I can't put files back on the ntfs drive.  How can I transfer this file?  Thanks.

[bedouin]

I believe write support for NTFS in *nix of any kind is still experimental.

[Kintaro]

Very experimental.

I believe that you can write but only to existing files and only to have the exact same filesize as the existing files. And anything else causes massive risk of damage. It may be a little more mature than this however.

[Aloone_Jonez]

Well the Captive Project allows safe full read/write acess to ntfs drives with no problem. It works by using a ReactOS module and some WINE code to emulate some Windows subsystems to allow Linux to use the ntfs.sys driver, but you do need the file and possibly some other Windows files but you can get them from file share if you don't have Windows - which is be illegal but who gives a fuck?

[Jenda]

Well the Captive Project allows safe full read/write acess to ntfs drives with no problem. It works by using a ReactOS module and some WINE code to emulate some Windows subsystems to allow Linux to use the ntfs.sys driver, but you do need the file and possibly some other Windows files but you can get them from file share if you don't have Windows - which is be illegal but who gives a fuck?

 Indeed. Who does...

[Annorax]

Just reformat the USB drive with fat32, transfer the file wherever you need it, then reformat the USB drive back to ntfs. :rolleyes:

[WMD]

Very experimental.

I believe that you can write but only to existing files and only to have the exact same filesize as the existing files. And anything else causes massive risk of damage. It may be a little more mature than this however.

Nope, that's about it.

To the parent....I've *never* seen a USB hard drive formatted NTFS.  Who did that? :o