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usd device ntfs read only

Asked by Réal DUPEUX

Hello ,
with the live cd , i can mount usd device
   mkdir /mnt/dusb
   mount /dev/sde1 /mnt/usb
   mount
           /dev/sde1 on /mnt/dusb type ntfs (rw)
but i can't write on ( read only)
can you help me ?
thank

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Aldous Peñaranda (dous) said : 		#1

I'm not sure why but since your usb device was mounted as ntfs, I think it's not possible to write to it simply because there's no (official?) write support for ntfs yet (last time I checked, at least).

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Markus Bertheau (mbertheau) said : 		#2

Indeed, linux as of now cannot reliably write to ntfs, therefore ntfs volumes are read only.

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Markus Bertheau (mbertheau) said : 		#3

You can format the usb volume with vfat, linux can write to that.

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Andrea Veri (av) said : 		#4

yeah on linux you cant write into a ntfs partition ,but you can format it and create a ext3 fyle system that is ,of course, writable .Just use this command mkfs.ext3 /partition(like /dev/hda)

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Matthew Lange (matthewlange) said : 		#5

If you format it as ext3, though, it is not by default readable by Windows. If you format it as vfat, it should be readable by any.

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