> 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 > I can write, rename, create folders and files under kernel -2.6.18-164.2.1.el5 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091103/b4c43b3b/attachment-0005.html>