Writing to protected partition

[nobody]

Hi to all,

I have 2 operating systems on the same hard drive, but most of the time
i use debian. Windows (NFTS) partition has a lot of free space
and i would like to use it...
The problem is that, while i can read from the windows partition
i cannot write to it.
Any advice to overcome this problem?
I don't think that moving first the data on a usb memory
stick and then to windows partition is a solution :-)

Thank you in advance.

[Lew Pitcher]

Post by nobody
Hi to all,
I have 2 operating systems on the same hard drive, but most of the time
i use debian. Windows (NFTS) partition has a lot of free space
and i would like to use it...

You /could/ use ntfsresize and make your NTFS partition smaller. Then
you could repartition and give the remaining unused space to Linux.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

Post by nobody
The problem is that, while i can read from the windows partition
i cannot write to it.

Yah. NTFS is a moving target and many kernels don't yet have the code to
reliably write to NTFS partitions.

Post by nobody
Any advice to overcome this problem?
I don't think that moving first the data on a usb memory
stick and then to windows partition is a solution :-)

That's one solution (and a good one, to me)

Another would be to use FUSE (Filesystem in USEr space) and the
MSWindows NTFS DLLS to give yourself read/write access to the NTFS
partition. I don't know how well this works, but apparently it /does/
work. http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfsmount

Post by nobody
Thank you in advance.

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Lew Pitcher, IT Specialist, Enterprise Data Systems
Enterprise Technology Solutions, TD Bank Financial Group

(Opinions expressed here are my own, not my employer's)

[Mark Hobley]

Post by Lew Pitcher
You /could/ use ntfsresize and make your NTFS partition smaller. Then
you could repartition and give the remaining unused space to Linux.
http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html

I agree with Lew. Make your NTFS partition smaller, and reallocate the space
for Linux. You've no reason to go back to using Windows again.

You could use FAT32, to share data with Windows, but because you are using
mostly Linux anyway, forget Windows, get your data onto Linux, and be done.

Regards,

Mark.
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