Re: LNX-BBC with Compact Flash

Sean Neakums <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:04:31 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.linux.bbc.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sean Neakums <[email protected]> writes:

> Dave Barry <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> Well, if we do have it, you may need to do:
>>
>> mount -t ntfs /dev/hde1 /mnt/mntpoint
>>
>> and then:
>>
>> mount -o remount,rw /dev/hde1
>>
>> to enable rw support.
>
> To my knowledge, the NTFS write supprt that is in 2.4 is dangerously
> broken, and marked as such.  Even the bleeding-edge NFTS driver has
> only limited write support; for example, writes that alter the lengh
> of a file are not allowed.

...which is precisely what the message you linked to says.  Alrighty!