On Fri, June 15, 2007 3:06 pm, Reg wrote: > Robert Fisher wrote: >> On Friday 15 June 2007 2:17 pm, Reg wrote: >> >>> I have some music files on a windows drive on my dual boot suse / xp >>> system . I can access these files and play them etc in Amarok, but I >>> cant rename them from Suse. Am I meant to be able to do that? And if so >>> what might be stopping me ? >>> >>> >> They might be on a Read-only partition - especially if it is NTFS >> >> > No I dont think that particular one is NTFS in yast it comes up as being > called win95 fat 32 although I dont know why as it was partitioned with > an XP CD. > > This is a separate drive called F: in windows as opposed to the C: drive > that XP is on and that comes up as NTFS. > > either way how do I change from read only if that is what it is ? > > reg > >
one step at a time, run the mount command and report back the results. You see there are two issues, firstly it might be mounted read only, in which case you will never write to it no matter what other permissions you have.. Secondly it might be mounted read write, but your user may not have the needed permissions to write to the files concerned. So before we bark up the wrong tree, give us the output of the mount command, which should tell us the answer to the first potential problem. -- Nick Rout
