Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Mike McMullin
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: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly SuSE 10.2 is mounting my

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-10-07 09:57]: [...] AFIK, NTFS write support is experimental. This means that it will be about as reliable as writing to it under Windows. ;-) Touchett :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Lenton wrote: Hi, SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). ^ |--= ReadOnly Which is the correct default for NTFS partitions on linux. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G T Smith wrote: Alan Lenton wrote: -Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, G T Smith wrote: Message was signed with unknown key 0x29CB9A02. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. gpgkeys: key 6AC374B129CB9A02 not found on keyserver G T Smith wrote: Kmail always puts this at the top of your messages, after grinding quite a while

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 14:17 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly | Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always | mounts NTFS formatted partitions as | | ReadOnly

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Clayton
I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, sigh Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions are Reiser, my XP partition was

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2007 09:53 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Clayton
The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS. Linux can read NTFS with no problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the XP partition, I can. On the other hand if I happened to be booted to Windows (err..

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote: On Friday 11 May 2007, G T Smith wrote: Message was signed with unknown key 0x29CB9A02. The validity of the signature cannot be verified. gpgkeys: key 6AC374B129CB9A02 not found on keyserver G T Smith wrote: Kmail

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Catimimi
Alan Lenton a écrit : There is the NTFS-3G project http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ that have a stable way to write to NTFS. I've never been brave enough to try it on any NTFS partitions, so I cannot vouch for how good this driver really is... maybe someone here has played with it though, and can

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, sigh Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions are Reiser, my

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-10-07 22:07]: [...] In any event, my statement was tongue in cheek, which is why it was phrased the way it was, and there is no need to pull this thread further off topic to revisit that open wound. More like Foot in MOUTH. IF you weren't *goading*

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, sigh Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. The way used to I do this

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, sigh Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue.

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, sigh

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of

[opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Alan Lenton
Hi, 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? alan lenton

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Clayton
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

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org 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

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Lenton wrote: Hi, 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

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Clayton
| Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always mounts NTFS formatted partitions as | | ReadOnly. It is indeed. Do I deduce from this that it isn't wise to change it to ReadWrite? Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical filesystem, and it's only

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread James Knott
Alan Lenton wrote: -Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org 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

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Lenton wrote: -Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: Definitely not wise to change from ro.  NTFS is not your typical filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to write to NTFS with any measure of reliability. Of course if the MS/Novell cross license agreement (hiding under the

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to write to NTFS with any measure of reliability. Of course if the MS/Novell cross license

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 10 May 2007, James Knott wrote: John Andersen wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to write to NTFS with any measure of reliability.