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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: hnugz on 20 June 2005, 20:20

Title: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: hnugz on 20 June 2005, 20:20

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.

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: bedouin on 20 June 2005, 20:29

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

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: Kintaro on 20 June 2005, 21:03

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.

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 20 June 2005, 21:34

Well the Captive Project (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) 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?

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: Jenda on 21 June 2005, 00:28

Quote from: Aloone_Jonez

Well the Captive Project (http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) 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...

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: Annorax on 22 June 2005, 01:09

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

Title: Re: Transfer file from unix to ntfs drive on same machine
Post by: WMD on 22 June 2005, 22:14

Quote from: 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.

Nope, that's about it.

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