On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Alan Lenton wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > > > > > >> SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows > >> ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). > >> > >> Is there any reason for this? I want to be able to write files in that > >> partition. If that was the case would I need to do anything else > >> except knock out the 'ro' element? > >> > > > > > > | Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always mounts > > NTFS formatted partitions as | | ReadOnly. > > | > > > > | C. > > > > It is indeed. Do I deduce from this that it isn't wise to change it to > > ReadWrite? > > > > alan > > > > > AFIK, NTFS write support is "experimental". This means that it will be > about as reliable as writing to it under Windows. ;-)
Speaking of which, there is a project that uses ntfs.sys itself to do the read writes on NTFS systems. So if MicroSoft cannot write to an NTSF partition who can? ;) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
