On Saturday 05 January 2008 21:19:28 MHR wrote: > On Jan 5, 2008 12:07 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu> wrote: > > Erm, from the kernel documentation -- "The driver currently supports > > read-only mode (with no fault-tolerance, encryption or journalling) and > > very limited, but safe, write support" and "The biggest limitation at > > present is that files/directories cannot be created or deleted." Also, > > AIUI, permissions are nowhere near the *nix way. > > Good point. > > I was using the NTFS module, with write support, in CentOS 4.4, before I > converted all my drives to ext3, but I don't recall if I ever tried to > create a directory on the NTFS partitions. > > mhr Have a look at NTFS-3G. I have been using it for about two years now on my MDV boxes, without any problems reading and writing to a 60Gb laptop drive in a usb external enclosure. I will be installing it on my CentOS 5.0 box when I get the time to finish setting it up. Soon I hope ! -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240