Nick Rout wrote: > 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. > > > yes one step at a time sounds good to me :-)
by the mount command do you mean open a terminal and type mount? if I do that this is what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> mount /dev/hda6 on / type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) debugfs on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5) /dev/hda7 on /home type ext3 (rw,acl,user_xattr) /dev/hda1 on /windows/C type ntfs (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,gid=100,umask=0002,nls =utf8) securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) /dev/hdb1 on /music type vfat (rw) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> the drive I am talking about is /dev/hdb1 reg
