- Writing to a Windows partition
- Posted by Robert Cook on January 26th, 2004
Hi
Is it possible to write to the windoes partition from Linux (Mandrake 9.2).
The wimdows partition is WinXP NTFS.
Thanks
- Posted by Hognoxious on January 26th, 2004
"Robert Cook" <rc42@kent.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:bv2tlp$eei$1@athena.ukc.ac.uk...
Last time I looked, access to NTFS partitions was read only, so even if it's
been added in recent versions it's likely to be flaky and I wouldn't trust
it.
I usually create a small FAT scratch partition that's visible to both OSs
for shuffling stuff from one to the other.
- Posted by Styvaen on January 26th, 2004
Hognoxious wrote:
NTFS writing was properly introduced in the 2.6 kernel series. It is only
available for overwriting existing files without changing their overall
length. The purpose of this is to support trial distributions of linux
that reside in a large file on an NTFS partition.
Mandrake 9.2 can shrink NTFS partitions with diskdrake. You can use the
liberated space to make an extra FAT32 partition.
Styvaen.
- Posted by Mauriat on January 26th, 2004
Robert Cook wrote:
Yes it is possible. There are 2 ways as I know.
1. Captive: http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
It is a bit tricky to setup and requires some Windows files, but I have
tried it and it does work. Writing is slow.
2. Paragon NTFS for Linux: http://www.ntfs-linux.com/
This costs ~70. It is very easy to setup and works quite well. It still
writes slow. And it doesn't yet support the 2.6 kernel.
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- Posted by Rod Smith on January 26th, 2004
Styvaen wrote:
Actually, NTFS write support has existed for a very long time (since at
least sometime in the 2.2.x kernel series, maybe earlier); however, it's
never exactly been reliable, and so has almost never been compiled into
NTFS driver modules provided by major distributions. It's also refused to
work with newer versions of NTFS as they've been introduced (for
instance, NTFS5 as used by Win2K when it was first released). I don't
know offhand if any of these versions would work with NTFS as used by
WinXP. Even if one did, I wouldn't recommend using it.
I haven't looked into the 2.6.x kernel's more limited
write-to-existing-files support. I'd imagine that'd be much more
reliable, though; since no file metadata are changed, there'd be much
less that could go wrong with it.
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