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 :) -- -- dag wieers, dag at wieers.com, http://dag.wieers.com/ -- dagit linux solutions, info at dagit.net, http://dagit.net/ [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors]