On Tuesday 16 Dec 2003 4:20 pm, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Tuesday 16 December 2003 10:59 am, Martin Brandt wrote: > > Hey, im trying to change the permissions for my windows partition > > so that i can write into it on a normal user. Atm i can't even > > write onto it via root, and it wont let me change the permissions > > on root either. Ive tried going onto the windows boot and sharing > > the Partition but it says its only for admins blah blah. I then > > tried to share a directory in it, but when i went back to the > > linux root there was not difference. What do i have to do? > > If it is an NTFS partition, it is mounted read-only because writing > to NTFS is still experimental in Linux. > > If it is FAT32, you need to set the umask=0 flag in /etc/fstab so > that users can write to it. Since you can't write to it as root, I > figure it is probably NTFS. It is not recommended to use Linux to > write to NTFS.
To get round that, many of us have a fat32 partition, which can be shared by both OSs. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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