permision denied to write in a partition mounted at startup

Ed Cogburn edcogburn at hotpop.com
Thu Aug 18 15:35:40 UTC 2005


nascent16 wrote:

> 
> Ed Cogburn Wrote:
>> 
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>> Drop NTFS along with Windows!
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> I would disagree with you there. While its true that Microsoft isn't
> being especially helpful to the linux community (in more ways than just
> this one), we need to learn to live with a world that is full of
> Windows.


MS isn't interested in working with us, why should we with them?


> Linux will be more quickly accepted and integrated into the 
> mainstream if it fully supports NTFS.


And that will happen as soon as MS releases internal documentation of the
NTFS filesystem, without requiring you to sell your soul to Bill first
(i.e. sign an NDA).  THAT is why NTFS support is limited right now.


> NTFS is not a bad filesystem 
> either, especially compared to the previously used FAT32. It will
> improve even more next year as it joins every other major file system
> in use today in supporting journaling. We should be happy with advances
> that have the -potential- to make interaction between the 2 operating
> systems more cohesive, even if at the time it seems only to make things
> more cumbersome.


Except Microsoft is absolutely uninterested in "interacting" with Linux. 
You're complaining to the wrong people.  NTFS isn't fully supported because
that is the way MICROSOFT wants it.







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