Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows?

[Barutan Seijin]

On 14 Aug 2005, Jesper Harder wrote:



> romeomedina@libero.it writes:
> 
> > Now, the problem is that the desired directory is /mnt/windows, and
> > gnus refuses to store mail there, maybe because of a matter of
> > permissions. But the command `$ ls -l /mnt' shows that the dir
> > /mnt/windows is writable by all users.  How can I work the problem
> > out?
> 
> You can't write to an NTFS file system from Gnu/Linux (I don't know if
> that's your setup, though).

No, that's not true.  It's been possible for a while, and it's not
even listed as "dangerous" anymore.  It's possible that the OP merely
needs to compile a new kernel with NTFS write support enabled.

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