mount NTFS && can't write to it

Ryan Coleman ryan.coleman at cwis.biz
Thu Sep 9 13:46:16 UTC 2010


the default NTFS driver - a topic of much discussion here in the past two months - does *not* support writing. Check ports for fuse-ntfs.


On Sep 9, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Matthias Apitz wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I'm mounting an NTFS slice on an external USB drive as:
> 
> # mount -t ntfs /dev/da1s1 /mnt
> 
> I can see the data there with ls(1) but can't create any dir like
> /mnt/dir nor touch a file like /mnt/file (ofc as root).
> It alwaya says /mnt/dir: No such file or directory. 
> 
> The man page of mount_ntfs(8) does not explain what the problem could
> be. This is with 8-CURRENT
> 
> Thx
> 
> 	matthias
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