Mounting NTFS disk through USB

[Carles Viaplana]

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

[Alexander Chuzhoy · Accepted solution]

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.

[Carles Viaplana]

Hello,

Finally we formatted external disk.

Thanks for your help.
Regards,

Carles