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Writing to NTFS drive in Linux

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Problem

I've got an external USB drive that is formatted with NTFS mounted on ~/tmp. I can read it just fine, but cannot write to it, even as root (temp is a folder on the USB drive): However, if I do a cat /proc/mounts, it looks like I do have NTFS read/write support: Finally, if I go to the folder above …

Error Output

[root@Plugbox temp]# touch test
touch: cannot touch `test': Permission denied
[root@Plugbox temp]#

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Fix for: Writing to NTFS drive in Linux

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Try out NTFS-3g. It has write support for NTFS. You may be using an NTFS module that doesn't support NTFS writes.

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