Linux cannot, at this stage, write (reliably, without the possibility of
corrupting the filesystem) to NTFS partitions. If you want a writeable
partition to share data use either FAT or FAT32.
Hans Raj wrote:
Hi,
I dont seem to have write access to my Windows partitions from
Linux, on my home computer. It runs Mandrake 9.2.
Ive attached the /etc/fstab at the end of mail. Have I configured
it right?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]$ su
Password:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ls -l
total 20
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 Dec 27 17:03 cdrive/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 27 22:20 cdrom/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 26 22:28 ddrive/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 27 20:34 fdrive/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 28 2004 floppy/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 19 18:03 hdrive/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# chmod 777 hdrive/
chmod: changing permissions of `hdrive/': Read-only file system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# ls -l
total 20
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 Dec 27 17:03 cdrive/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 27 22:20 cdrom/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 26 22:28 ddrive/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 27 20:34 fdrive/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 28 2004 floppy/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Dec 19 18:03 hdrive/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]#
Contents of /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrive ntfs umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,user, 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/ddrive ntfs umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,user, 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/fdrive ntfs umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,user, 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdrive ntfs umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,rw,user, 0 0
Thanks,
Hans
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