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@Ult Dev'r: NTFS write support in the kernel is experimental (although safe), and extremely limited. You cannot create new files, new folders, or change the size of a file. If you write, the file must stay the same size. I consider that "no write support", as its incredibly difficult to keep the file the same size for anything except maybe a spell check or a config value change
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/
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How to access NTFS from Linux
You have these two options, choose one:
1) Linux has an integrated kernel driver. It allows reading of files, and rewriting existing files. It does not support creation of new files or deletion of existing files. It works out of the box in most modern Linux distributions except Redhat/Fedora. For details on how to use it, see the "How to mount NTFS" wiki page. Click here if you are a Redhat/Fedora user.
2) ntfsprogs includes an improved driver, ntfsmount, which provides the same functionality as the kernel driver. Additionally it also supports basic cases of directory, symlink, device and FIFO file creation, deletion and renaming. Note: That doesn't mean it always succeeds, it is still experimental and might just as well refuse to complete an operation in order to prevent corruption. See the ntfsmount page for more details.
Project updates:
There is currently lots of progress being made in the linux-ntfs project, and we are once again moving one step closer to a full implementation of a read/write ntfs driver for linux.
On 07/14/2006, Project Member Szabolcs Szakacsits presented a new version of our ntfsmount and libntfs, currently given the project internal title ntfs-3g. This version has, apart from several rather unlikely cases, full read/write capabilities and has improved performance. As news spreads quickly, it has already been downloaded and tested by many users, and no incident has been reported so far. Despite of that it is still to be considered beta, and will upon successfull testing (in some way or the other) merge into the linux-ntfs ntfsprogs package
So, you can get full read/write capabilities, but it's very rare So it's uber-experimental But I guess you'd still consider that "no write support"