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Rem,

You cannot write to NTFS using the stock driver.

Please use Google to search / do research on the drivers out there; =
writing to NTFS is a VERY dangerous thing. Your best bet is to just do =
your work over the network instead of directly over USB from a =
Windows-based node.

Also, read the man file for mount_ntfs, it will explain more.
--
Ryan


On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote:

> I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus:
>=20
>    mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt
>=20
> Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to =
it.
> What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an =
external hard drive?
>=20
> Rem
>=20
>=20
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