[CentOS] ntfs

Tue Dec 7 17:26:52 UTC 2010
Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com>

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 :)

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