On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 5:36 AM, Paul Stear <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just bought a ionega 1 tb external hard disc but can not write to it. > It is automatically mounted to media:/sdf1 but when I check the permissions > they are for mu user name, group root, owner "can view Contents". Group and > others "forbidden". I have tried as user and root to change permissions but I > just get an error message saying "Could not change permissions > for /media/iomega/HDD/System Volume Information. The disc is pre-formatted > with NTFS and I will want to be able to connect it to windows some times. > Thanks for any help > Paul
If you want to then you can go the other way which is to install an ext3 driver in Windows and format the drive as ext2 or ext3. I use it and it works for me although I haven't tried it on an external drive. http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html Cheers, Mark
