[TriLUG] Writing to NTFS in Linux?

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006, Michael Tharp wrote:

> NTFS is pretty stable these days. You cannot create new files or resize 
> existing ones, so "write support" translates to "write over existing files", 
> but it's safe for the most part.

I looked into this a couple of months ago and decided that 
writing a file of exactly the same number of bytes as the 
original was pretty limiting. Presumably I'd have to do a 
size check each time to make sure I wasn't going to hose the 
NTFS filesystem.

Joe

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