Writing to NTFS from LiveCD

Gabriel M Dragffy dragffy at yandex.ru
Wed Oct 11 07:20:48 UTC 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-11 at 11:02 +0400, Jury Levykin wrote:
> 2006/10/10, unksi <unksi at kapsi.fi>:
>         > is it possible to write into NTFS partition from Dapper
>         LiveCD (are there
>         > ways to do it)?
>         
>         I think it is only possible to read NTFS partitions from
>         there.
> 
> Yes it is true according to design of LiveCD but may be are there some
> ways to do it? 
> 
> 
> 

While you are booted into the livecd you could start compiling and
installing ntfs-3g and unionfs, this will enable you to write. But it's
a lot of work to do from a live cd and you'd need a lot of ram for the
extra installed packages





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