NTFS

Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?

I don't want to format all my drives to fat, i could create a small fat
partition on one of my hard drives but i would prefer to be able to write to
all of my drives.

thanks
don

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 23:07:15 GMT
"dglock" <dglock@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?
>

Short answer: No.

Longer answer: Microsoft refuses to release the details/API for NTFS so
there will never be 100% *reliable* support. There are some options
(googling should find them) but I, personally, would never trust any
of them simply because of the above fact.

However, if you have two computers -- one Linux and one Windows -- you
can network them and write wherever you want via Samba. That way,
Windows is writing to it's filesystems and you avoid the problem. But,
if this is all on one box, that's not an option . . .


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dglock wrote:

> Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?
>
> I don't want to format all my drives to fat, i could create a small fat
> partition on one of my hard drives but i would prefer to be able to write
> to all of my drives.
>
> thanks
> don

Hi Don,

for now you are better advised not to use writing on ntfs, but to make small
fat32 partition. For latest informations on status of linux-ntfs project
youcan look at:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
here is current status
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/15/29/

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Rajko M.

thats pretty much what i gathered from reading on the web. i was hoping
someone had found something i had missed!

thanks for the replys.
don

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> dglock wrote:
>
>> Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?
>>
>> I don't want to format all my drives to fat, i could create a small fat
>> partition on one of my hard drives but i would prefer to be able to write
>> to all of my drives.
>>
>> thanks
>> don
>
> Hi Don,
>
> for now you are better advised not to use writing on ntfs, but to make
> small
> fat32 partition. For latest informations on status of linux-ntfs project
> youcan look at:
> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
> here is current status
> http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/15/29/
>
> --
> Regards,
> Rajko M.

dglock wrote:
> thats pretty much what i gathered from reading on the web. i was hoping
> someone had found something i had missed!
>
> thanks for the replys.
> don
>
There is another option - you can read the data both ways

Linux can of course read NTFS partitions and rfs /rfsgui can read reiser
partitions under windows - so you can do two way transfer

see http://p-nand-q.com/e/reiserfs.html

dglock wrote:

> Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?

In addition to what the other replies said, there's also a project
named "Captive" building a wrapper to run the original Windows NTFS
driver on Linux with the help of WinE (the Windows Emulator).
See http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

HTH
Tilman

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> dglock wrote:
>
>>Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?
>
> In addition to what the other replies said, there's also a project
> named "Captive" building a wrapper to run the original Windows NTFS
> driver on Linux with the help of WinE (the Windows Emulator).
> See http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

I thought captive was dead... anyway.. SUSE really needs to
add FUSE... maybe in a future release.

On 24.01.2006 06:23, Chris Cox wrote:

> I thought captive was dead...

Must have missed the obituary. How did it die?

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Chris Cox wrote:

> Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>> dglock wrote:
>>
>>>Are there any easy solutions to writing to ntsf drives from suse?
>>
>> In addition to what the other replies said, there's also a project
>> named "Captive" building a wrapper to run the original Windows NTFS
>> driver on Linux with the help of WinE (the Windows Emulator).
>> See http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/
>
> I thought captive was dead... anyway.. SUSE really needs to
> add FUSE... maybe in a future release.

Obviously, it is not.

Just, it looks strange:
wrapper for wireless,
wrapper for NTFS,
wrapper for windows applications (wine),
more wrappers that I don't know about ...

Is that where the Linux is going?

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Regards,
Rajko M.

Tilman Schmidt wrote:
> On 24.01.2006 06:23, Chris Cox wrote:
>
>>I thought captive was dead...
>
> Must have missed the obituary. How did it die?
>

Well there was a time when it wasn't using FUSE and
it seemed to have died. Nice to see it's alive
and well (apparently).. except for SUSE's refusal
to add FUSE to their dist.