Linux NTFS project adds write support
Thought this was pretty cool (and a long time coming): the Linux NTFS kernel driver has now added write capabilities. If you’ve ever used this – as many people have – than you’ve no doubt noticed how frustrating it can be when you can look at your files, but not touch them! Check out this post at nixCraft with all the dirt.
The goals of the Linux-NTFS project are to develop reliable and full feature access to NTFS by the Linux kernel driver, and by a user space filesystem (ntfsmount), and to provide a wide collection of NTFS utilities (ntfsprogs) and a developer’s library (libntfs) for other GPLed programs. We have achieved already a lot, with high quality results.
I’ve been a big fan of using Linux-based rescue disks for repairing just about any computer, including Windows. Having the capability to now edit an NTFS file system to help repair the system is great news.
