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ktauchathuranga

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From: Sri Lanka

Registered: 2025-05-25

Posts: 7

why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

i am pretttyy new to this,
but i managed to create small linux distro using busybox
i want write to windows partition when i found it, so i wrote a little script for that,i can see the windows partitions, i can do ls the windows partitions, but when i try to create a file, its saying Read-Only file system. can some one tell me how to deal with this please...
thank uuuu

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 13,908

Re: why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

By default kernel mounts ntfs read-only. You need to explicitly enable r/w mounting.

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NTFS#F … _read-only

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ktauchathuranga

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From: Sri Lanka

Registered: 2025-05-25

Posts: 7

Re: why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

is this correct? or do i have to do anything else?

EDIT:
i manged it to working... thank you for the helpppp...

Last edited by ktauchathuranga (2025-07-06 13:11:57)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,450

Re: why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

Do yo build a custom kernel anyway?
Just (explicitly) mount the drive "ntfs3" instead or "ntfs"

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ktauchathuranga

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From: Sri Lanka

Registered: 2025-05-25

Posts: 7

Re: why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

Do yo build a custom kernel anyway?
Just (explicitly) mount the drive "ntfs3" instead or "ntfs"

thank youuu... it worked...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,450

Re: why i cant write to NTFS drive in my minimal busybox os?

Yes, please read the NTFS article Lone_Wolf linked and always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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