I have a 7.3R box and the mount_ntfs man page indicates that some limited support for writing is available.
What I want to do is do a filesystem dump onto a plain file on the NTFS volume. This feels like something that should fit within the scope of "limited writing".
Yet dump is unable to create or write 'foobar.dmp'.
So, can someone clarify what is and isn't really possible with the NTFS filesystem? Can I write but not create a file?
I realise there is better support through NTFS-3g, but I was hoping to get this done with a base (single user, if possible) configuration. I'm not in a position where I can easily put new packages on the 7.3R system, even if the package binary was around.
What I want to do is do a filesystem dump onto a plain file on the NTFS volume. This feels like something that should fit within the scope of "limited writing".
Yet dump is unable to create or write 'foobar.dmp'.
So, can someone clarify what is and isn't really possible with the NTFS filesystem? Can I write but not create a file?
I realise there is better support through NTFS-3g, but I was hoping to get this done with a base (single user, if possible) configuration. I'm not in a position where I can easily put new packages on the 7.3R system, even if the package binary was around.