Don't you need ntfs3g to be able to write to an NTFS partition? JC On 4/3/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> wrote: > > "Josep M." <mylinuxmaillists-2006 at yahoo.es> wrote: > > > Hello Ralph. > > > > I was searching and was reading that after kernel 2.6.15 all kernels > have full NTFS read/write support,(RHEL5 is 2.6.18) so, maybe I will have > to rebuild this, I hope Redhat do not stripped this from kernel sources. > > > > Josep > > > > > > Ralph Angenendt <ra+centos at br-online.de> escribió: Josep M. wrote: > > > >> > > >> > Hello. > >> > I have Centos 4.4 with the NTFS read-only > driver from > >> > http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/135/71/ > >> > I would like know if someone who installed this can test if Centos > 5 can > >> > read/write NTFS,. > >> > > > > Not out of the box: > > > > [angenenr at shutdown ~]$grep -i ntfs /boot/config-2.6.18-8.el5 > > # CONFIG_NTFS_FS is not set > > [angenenr at shutdown ~]$ > It wouldn't surprise me if NTFS was encumbered by some sort of Micro$oft > intellectual property claim. This would be sufficient to cause Red Hat > to not build their kernel with it even if all it takes to make it work > is to enable the feature in the kernel build. > > See one of the many flame wars over MP3 or some other IP encumbered > technology as to why RH won't include it (and risk getting sued). > > Cheers, > Dave > > -- > Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. > -- Ambrose Bierce > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070403/750aff53/attachment-0005.html>