'Operation not permitted' on firewire/NTFS external HD

[Jeff Vian]

On Tue, 2004-08-31 at 00:19, CB wrote:
> I have an external firewire drive with an NTFS partition mounted thus:
> 
> 	/dev/sda1 on /mnt/ext1 type ntfs (rw)
> 
> When I try and create/delete any files or directories under /mnt/ext1, I 
> get 'Operation not permitted' (all files & dirs currently there were 
> placed under windows xp). I can do these operations fine on a vfat 
> partition on the same drive.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
NTFS support is currently "read only" with the (possible) exception of
writing to already existing files that does not change the size.