NTFS write access under Debian lenny

[Ansar Mohammed]

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#is_ntfs_better_than_fat_fat32

http://www.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#how_safe_is_the_ntfs_driver

FYI, the FS is documented but it has to be licensed. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Lennart
> Sorensen
> Sent: October 10, 2008 9:28 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: NTFS write access under Debian lenny
> 
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:37:34PM -0400, Giles Orr wrote:
> > I bought an external USB HD today, dumped some unimportant data onto
> > the 500GB NTFS volume at work, and brought it home.  My other
> external
> > HDs are one small vfat, and three larger ext3 volumes.  I decided it
> > would be nice if I could have one that was NTFS and would work with
> my
> > friend's computers (most of them are still on Windows).  So I just
> > plugged it in and typed "mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt/comstar/" as root, and
> > then mount shows "/dev/sdf1 on /mnt/comstar type ntfs (rw)" -
> > unfortunately, it's lying because I can't write to that volume
> > although it reads fine.  And honestly, I'm confused about _how_ it's
> > mounting it at all because there are at least two and perhaps three
> > different NTFS projects.  I don't seem to have NTFS-3G installed, and
> > the "fuse" module hasn't been loaded into the kernel so what's Debian
> > using?  Captive?  And why can't I write to the volume?  Google
> > searches tell me how to fix my problem ... but they all seem to be
> > starting from no NTFS access at all so I want to know where I'm
> > standing before I start tinkering.  Thanks.
> 
> The kernel has had ntfs read support for years.  It only does read
> since
> doing writes to an undocumented and very complex filesystem just isn't
> a
> good idea.
> 
> Some of the other projects use the actual driver from windows which of
> course has no issue with lack of documentation.
> 
> If you want a driver that will work with windows users and linux for
> read/write, you use fat32 (mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sdf1).  Linux has no
> problem creating that, while windows won't let you if it is over 32GB
> because someone at microsoft is an idiot that claims to know better
> than
> their users.  Windows has no problem using the larger fat32 driver
> since
> it is a perfectly valid filesystem.
> 
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