ntfs write?

Roger Oberholtzer roger
Mon Dec 27 17:48:25 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 14:13 -0800, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Any progress being made on linux' ability to write to an ntfs (WinXP) 
> partition? I transferred some .avi's via samba to an ntfs share, and 
> they seem not to have written correctly. The titles are mixed up, and 
> the files usually play for only about 2 seconds before stalling.
> 

In the 2.6 kernel, there is the ability to write to ntfs volumes - if
you do not change the size of the file. Just the contents. So, it looks
like samba will remain.

Are the disk titles messed up, or do you mean the ID3 tags? If the tags
and the other problems, then that is odd.





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