On Sun, 5 Dec 2010, Ron Loftin wrote:
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 23:52 +0530, Ritika Garg wrote:
CentOS 5.5 is installed in the system. I installed the package kmod-ntfs-2.1.27-3.el5.elrepo.x86_64.rpm I mounted Seagate external hard disk. I am able to copy contents from the hard disk to the system but not from the system to the hard disk.
Yes. If you go to this page on the ElRepo site:
http://elrepo.org/tiki/kmod-ntfs
and check the limitations you will see that this is the expected behavior.
If you want full write capabilities with NTFS I suggest that you remove kmod-ntfs and instead use the fuse-ntfs-3g package from RPMForge. That relies on DKMS ( which works well enough for me ) and has full read-write capabilities.
Just a small correction. Fuse filesystems do no longer need dkms installed since the fuse kernel-module is now part of RHEL5 since RHEL 5.4. So if people still have the dkms module installed and/or use ELRepo's fuse kernel module they can safely remove it :)