On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Ron Loftin <reloftin at twcny.rr.com> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:38 -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote: >>> >>> Looks like you are doing everything just fine. Perhaps, we should >>> move this conversation to the ELRepo mailing list because this is now >>> all about kmod-ntfs and not all members of the ELRepo team are reading >>> this mailing list on a regular basis. >>> >>> http://elrepo.org/tiki/MailingLists >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> I think that I just signed up for the ELRepo mailing list. I will post >> my last message there ( unless you think more of the background is >> useful ) and see what turns up. > > Adding the link to your original post of this thread will help: > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-November/084896.html This is just a followup post for those who would like to know how this conversation developed. The details are in this ELRepo mailing list thread: http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2009-November/000102.html In short, the write support offered by the kernel (hence kmod-ntfs) is quite limited. Alan Bartlett pointed to this section of the kernel Kconfig file: "The only supported operation is overwriting existing files, without changing the file length. No file or directory creation, deletion or renaming is possible. Note only non-resident files can be written to so you may find that some very small files (<500 bytes or so) cannot be written to." Conclusion is, if you need to write to NTFS, you should use ntfs-3g. Akemi