NTFS full access

[Djem]

How can I get full access to NTFS. Read and Write. I only get Read-Only.
Or Isn't that possible?

/dev/sda5 /media/140GB ntfs ,uid=1000,gid=1000,noauto,rw,users 0 0

[whoiam55]

Re: NTFS full access

I won't recommand that and you must not enable the NTFS RW access unless you risk corrupting you file system.

[aysiu]

Re: NTFS full access

If you want read/write to a Windows partition, you want FAT32, not NTFS.
Supposedly, there's something called Captive NTFS that enables you to write to NTFS safely, but I think it's still experimental at this point.

[Djem]

Re: NTFS full access

The disk doesn't contain any OS if that matters. I don't want to convert it to Fat32 since it doesn't support big files (if i'm not misstaken) and I want to use it in both Win2k and Linux. Any suggestions (an ext3 driver for windows maybe)

If there isn't any good solutions I guess I can split it.

[aysiu]

Re: NTFS full access

I don't want to convert it to Fat32 since it doesn't support big files (if i'm not misstaken)

Do you have files over 4 GB big? I don't. The largest files I have are about 7 MB. FAT32 cannot support files bigger than 4 GB.

[Djem]

Re: NTFS full access

I don't want to convert it to Fat32 since it doesn't support big files (if i'm not misstaken)

Do you have files over 4 GB big? I don't. The largest files I have are about 7 MB. FAT32 cannot support files bigger than 4 GB.

Downloaded DVDs often comes in iso's at 4.5GB
I'll guess I can do it the hard way.

[aysiu]

Re: NTFS full access

Downloaded DVDs often comes in iso's at 4.5GB
I'll guess I can do it the hard way.

If you don't mind burning DVDs on the NTFS or Ext3 partitions, you can use FAT32 for everything else. Are those the only files you'd have over 4 GB?

[Djem]

Re: NTFS full access

I guess I can't expect everything to be compatible with windows as long as microsoft doesn't want competition.
I've fixed the problem for now.
Btw. Is there a way to convert from NTFS to ext3 without dataloss?

Thank you all for the response

[chscag]

Re: NTFS full access

I guess I can't expect everything to be compatible with windows as long as microsoft doesn't want competition.
I've fixed the problem for now.
Btw. Is there a way to convert from NTFS to ext3 without dataloss?

Thank you all for the response

No way to convert that I know of. Partition Magic will convert FAT-32 to NTFS and Vice-Versa but not ext3. If there are data files you wish to save over from XP to Kubuntu, you'll have to convert them to FAT-32 first. Then you can access the FAT-32 partition from Kubuntu and copy the data to your Kubuntu ext3 partition. Not a very elegant way of doing it, but it should work.

Regards from Texas

[aysiu]

Re: NTFS full access

Is there a way to convert from NTFS to ext3 without dataloss?

As far as I know, you can't "convert" any filesystem to another filesystem. You can reformat NTFS to Ext3 or reformat NTFS to FAT32, but reformatting means deleting all the files that are there.

You can, however, resize partitions and create new ones. For example, if you have an 80 GB hard drive that's entirely NTFS, you can resize it to be 40 GB (leaving you another 40 GB partition) and format the new 40 GB partition as FAT32. Theoretically, this shouldn't affect your data, but you should always back up your data before messing with it.

[whoiam55]

Re: NTFS full access

As far as I know, you can't "convert" any filesystem to another filesystem.

Hola,

You can convert FAT16 for FAT32 and you can convert a FAT32 filesystem to NTFS without data loss. But *YOU CAN'T* convert a FAT32 filesystem back TO FAT 16 and a NTFS filesystem to FAT32. Although you can do it with 3rd party tools but there is a risk of data corruption.

[Nirvana]

Re: NTFS full access

Can't you just use up some free space and create a new partition by resizing a current one, and format it to FAT? That's what I do...

example: I have C: (which has windows) and D: (my data). I have free space on D: so I resize it and create a partition with the then unpartitioned space, and reformat the new partition to FAT, then I copy my files over, delete the NTFS, and resize the FAT partition to take up all free space.

[Manasse]

Re: NTFS full access

You can use tools like Ext2fs wich gives you full access from Windows to your ext3 partitions. In Linux you can still read your partition, so it is easy to write what you want in Linux on your Home dir for example and have access to it from Windows, without any loss. I'm using this to share some video acquisition files , which are larger than 4Gb, between systems.

[gnutux]

Re: NTFS full access

actually, FAT32 DO support files 4GB big, AS LONG AS YOU FORMAT IT WITH LINUX.

gnutux

[Djem]

Re: NTFS full access

didn't know, have to try that