topic Re: Mounting NTFS disk through USB in Operating System - Linux

Mounting NTFS disk through USB

Carles Viaplana — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:30:24 GMT

Hello,

We've mounted NTFS disk through USB port:

mount -t ntfs -w /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb

But we can't write there:

istambul:/mnt/usb # touch test
touch: cannot touch `test': Read-only file system
istambul:/mnt/usb #

What are we doing wrong?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Regards,

Carles

Re: Mounting NTFS disk through USB

Alexander Chuzhoy — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 02:36:13 GMT

The NTFS module is read only. The write mode is very dangerous (I think it works only on NTFS 4) and is rarely compiled/enabled in kernel.

Re: Mounting NTFS disk through USB

Carles Viaplana — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:27:29 GMT

Hello,

Finally we formatted external disk.

Thanks for your help.
Regards,

Carles