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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...

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