Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
Thanks, that is a perfect solution to my problem. Esp. since I am not having much luck getting ntfs-3g installed and running. Odd. For what it's worth I don't use ntfs much, but I tried ntfs-3g the other day, and it was trivial: apt-get install ntfs-3g, then mount. Stefan -- To

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-24 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The standard implementation of NTFS for Linux is read-only IIRC. There is NTFS-3g, which is rw, you can try that. As for the partition being mounted root-only, read the manual page of mount (man mount). Look in the section Mount options for ntfs for the options uid=value,gid=value and

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only!

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-24 Thread wix
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only!

How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-23 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they aren't smb or exported. I really

Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW

2007-03-23 Thread Maciej Rutecki
Dennis G. Wicks napisaƂ(a): Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Mercurial Canid wrote: Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-09 Thread Christian Hudon
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote: Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? Work is being done on a NTFS driver

NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-08 Thread Robert Platt
Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? Thanks Robert Platt McGill University -- Montreal Children's Hospital Research

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-08 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote: Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? I don't believe linux can mount NTFS

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-08 Thread Robert Platt
Can Linux read NTFS filesystems? I looked at the partitions using fdisk and it read the NTFS filesystem as OS/2 HPFS, but when I tried to mount it calling it HPFS it didn't work. Is there any way to do this? I don't believe linux can mount NTFS filesystems. But, did you make sure

Re: NTFS Filesystems

1996-12-08 Thread Daniel Stringfield
On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Robert Platt wrote: I did check that. My basic problem is I have some stuff on my NTFS disk that I need to get over to another HD which has my linux swap and root partitions. Is there a fips.exe type utility that would work on a linux patition? That way I could shrink