Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-15 Thread Colin
Robert Persson wrote: A long time ago I used Captive NTFS to do this. It's not maintained now, but I think it should still work with recent kernel versions afaik. You can find it at http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/. Is it available via emerge? -- Colin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-15 Thread Robert Persson
A long time ago I used Captive NTFS to do this. It's not maintained now, but I think it should still work with recent kernel versions afaik. You can find it at http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/. Robert On May 14, 2005 05:06 am Panos Laganakos was like: > Hello, > > I am mounting o

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Tim Igoe
Writing to NTFS partitions is not recommended - what writing that is supported is very limited. Only over writing files and to exactly the same size iirc. If you need to share data between Win and Lin, a FAT32 partition (or network drive) is probably your best bet. -- Tim Igoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Emmanuel Durin
NTFS writing support is limited to overwriting existing files without changing the file length. It seems that there is no solutions to have a decent NTFS writing support. If you really need a partition that will be readable under windows and linux, switch to FAT32. You can also install a ext2/ext3

Re: [gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Tom Wesley
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 15:06 +0300, Panos Laganakos wrote: > Hello, > > I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though > that it is mounted readonly. > > Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? > Read/write support for ntfs is only partia

[gentoo-user] ntfs mounted partition

2005-05-14 Thread Panos Laganakos
Hello, I am mounting one of my ntfs partition from linux. The problem is though that it is mounted readonly. Is there some option i need to pass to fstab to make it write-able too? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list