[ltp] Writing to an NTFS disk?

Adrian Bastholm linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:41:56 +0200


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Or You could ty converting the NTFS drive to ext3 with PartitionMagic ...
/adrian

On 8/2/06, thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com <thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com>
wrote:
>
> I have ubuntu 6.06 on my Thinkpad R31.   I'd like to hook up an
> external laptop hard drive via a  USB 2.0 port on a PC Card.   The
> drive's formatted in NTFS and already has data, so I can't change the
> filesystem without compromising its contents.
>
> How can I read/write to an NTFS disk under Linux?  What little I've
> read so far leads me to believe there aren't too many candidates that
> are both stable and reliable.   Captive may come close.
>
> Any thing else I can try?
>
> Thanks for reading.
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Or You could ty converting the NTFS drive to ext3 with PartitionMagic ...<br>/adrian<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/2/06, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com">thinkpadr31@lkv.mailshell.com
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I have ubuntu 6.06 on my Thinkpad R31.&nbsp;&nbsp; I'd like to hook up an<br>external laptop hard drive via a&nbsp;&nbsp;USB 2.0 port on a PC Card.&nbsp;&nbsp; The<br>drive's formatted in NTFS and already has data, so I can't change the<br>filesystem without compromising its contents.
<br><br>How can I read/write to an NTFS disk under Linux?&nbsp;&nbsp;What little I've<br>read so far leads me to believe there aren't too many candidates that<br>are both stable and reliable.&nbsp;&nbsp; Captive may come close.<br><br>Any thing else I can try?
<br><br>Thanks for reading.<br>--<br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br><a href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
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