NTFS5 read-only?

[Stupid Newbie]

I'm dual-booting Win2k and SuSE Linux7.2. I'm just wondering if the NTFS driver in linux is read-only. The default mount windows drive desktop icon that SuSE created only mount it as read-only. But it also ridiculously set floppies to be mounted as read-only. (It took me SO LONG to figure out what's wrong when I'm trying to transfer a file to windows thru a floppy) So can I get it to read/write if clear that read-only option? Or it's a limitation of the driver?

[bdg1983]

NTFS (especially NTFS5) write access is still experimental and could corrupt your ntfs filesystem.

You could try mounting the drive as rw or update fstab to reflect rw for the ntfs partition.

If that doesn't work, then ntfs rw support hasn't been included in the kernel. It is a option there.

[Malakin]

I've never tried it but several people here have said that writing to an ntfs5 partition will damage it 100% of the time. There's some program you're supposed to run after that tries to fix it.

My point here is, unless you've got everything backed up and aren't too afraid of trashing your ntfs partition I wouldn't touch it.

My solution is to have win2k on an ntfs partion but to have a fat32 partition which takes up most of the drive that I use to store videos, mp3's and whatever I want the two os's to share.

[Stupid Newbie]

Thanks very much. Fortunately I asked that before I try. I've had a very bad experience with NTFS5 partition using Partition Magic last year. It totally screwed up my NTFS5 partition. I should have checked their website first.