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Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 10:27:20 -0800
Subject: Re: ntfs and rw in -CURRENT
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On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 02:37  AM, Daxbert wrote:

> Should I be able to simply create a
> file (ie touch foo) on an NTFS volume
> that's mounted rw?

No, you can't.

> I'm following -CURRENT... did I miss
> something from the man page?
> I thought that at least minimal
> write support was available?

You just need a stricter definition of "minimal." :-)

That minimal write support only allows you to overwrite bytes that 
already exist in a non-compressed file.  That means no growing or 
shrinking of files.  You can't create, delete, move, rename files or 
directories.  You can't change metadata.

-Mark


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