mgh;202828 Wrote: > Anyone with suggestions for good resources for me to learn about Linux > commands?
Any time you have a question about a command, type "man <command name>". The description that comes up is complete but can sometimes be complicated. You may also want to google for the command name, there are sites out there with simplified command descriptions. After a while you'll start to notice a pattern. Commands usually are entered as "command -options (or --options) files". > I found out I could not save an OpenOffice doc to NTFS, so may need to > make some decisions sooner than later. OOo doesn't care what drives it uses, that's up to the OS. From within Windows you can write to FAT16, FAT32 and NTFS drives. ext3 support can be added with a driver, http://www.fs-driver.org/ Linux has a huge variety of filesystems to chose from: reiserfs, XFS, JFS, ZFS (new), ext2 and ext3. ext3 is recommended for stability and robustness at the expense of speed. I've seen an Ubuntu forum thread where people have experimented with XFS which is much faster but not as secure. I think your issue is that the drive is formatted in NTFS. Linux can read NTFS but cannot write to it, hence the "read only" errors. You need to install "ntfs-3g" to write to it. At first I thought Linux was great out of the box but it was very complicated to change anything. Now I'm starting to realize this isn't quite the case since you can change ANYTHING and there's a huge amount of pre-configured software packages for you to choose from. After a while, you start to get to know the commands as you spot repeating patterns. Keep watching the commands people suggest to you and look for patterns - things will start to click. Oh and BTW to mount the drive, don't use mtab as that's not permanent. Use /etc/fstab as that is permanent. Modify it using "sudo gedit /etc/fstab". Add: Code: -------------------- /dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs umask=222,utf8 0 0 -------------------- Save fstab. Unmount sda1 - "sudo umount /dev/sda1" Then re-mount drives using fstab, "sudo mount -a". Note when you install ntfs-3g, you may have to change "ntfs" in fstab to "ntfs-3g". I'm not sure, I never used ntfs-3g. -- Mark Lanctot 'Sean Adams' Response-O-Matic checklist, patent pending!' (http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=200910&postcount=2) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=35254 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
