On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Enver Tughan Atasever <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am using a boot-cd version of debian linux with xfce environment. > In my case i need to access and write on to my philips external hdd with > ntfs format through linux. > In fact the linux version i am using is seeing my external hdd but it seems > that it cannot access it > and an error msg "permission denied" came out. When i opened the "gparted" > application > i saw a "key" icon on the /dev/sdb which is my external usb hdd. I am not > supposed to be an expert > for linux systems so, is there someone who can help me on this?
You need to get a boot cd which has the ntfs-3g package installed. AFAIK it is the only one which has decent write support. ~David _______________________________________________ Pkg-xfce-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-xfce-devel
