[Gllug] NTFS RW

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 12:06:35PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
 > I've recompiled the kernel with NTFS_RW=y but it still won't let me
 > delete files from a mounted NTFS drive.
 > I did ..
 > mount -t ntfs -w /dev/sda3 /mnt/disk
 > and it says rw-------
 > but I can't delete files.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. The old NT code (ie, that still merged in
2.4) is almost certain to cause corruption in write mode.

For the curious, the new code (NTFS-TNG) currently in 2.5 is also
read-only.

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