Making Windows partitions user w/r

Wed Apr 26 19:15:22 UTC 2006

Quoting Robert Brockway <rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org>:

> On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Lance F. Squire wrote:
>
> > Whats the best way to make Windows partitions user writable in Ubuntu?
>
> Hi Lance. This is actually a function of the filesystem type and its mount
> options.
>
> VFAT will mount as read-write by default, NTFS will mount as read-only in
> general. This is because until recently NTFS read-write support was buggy.
>
> If you have a recent enough kernel and recent enough supporting tools you
> will be able to get read-write mounted NTFS.  To make the filesystem mount
> read-write when it is defaulting to read-only use something like this:
>
> mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /win
>
> If you find when doing this that it still refuses to mount read-write then
> the version of the kernel & tools are too old to support safe read-write
> access.  If you just need access in order to change something recent
> Knoppix cdroms support read-write NTFS access.
>
> You may wish to look in /etc/fstab to look at the mount options set there
> too.
>
> Rob
>
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Is writing to NTFS now working well enough to use on a day-to-day basis?  ie.
would you be confident in writing to an NTFS partition with a Windows install
without damaging anything?  For years I've been reading NTFS but have not dared
to mount without the read-only option.

Tom Watts
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