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Err:Read-only for Windows partition

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Original Message
Name: khanati
Date: June 25, 2004 at 17:07:12 Pacific
Subject: Err:Read-only for Windows partition
OS: Mandrake Linux
CPU/Ram: 1 GB
Comment:

Hi everyone:

I got hold of other window partitions but the thing is, if i login as root and try to change permissions for that, it gives error that it cannot change permissions coz it is read only. How can we fix this thing. i need to access the data from other partitions(Window partitions) I hope someone can help me with that.

Thanks


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Response Number 1
Name: Dlonra
Date: June 26, 2004 at 08:20:06 Pacific
Subject: Err:Read-only for Windows partition
Reply: (edit)

"got hold"?
"for that"? maybe "for this"?

man fdisk
man ls (particularly ls -l)


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Response Number 2
Name: Dlonra
Date: June 26, 2004 at 08:22:21 Pacific
Subject: Err:Read-only for Windows partition
Reply: (edit)

i forgot to include:

man mount


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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave
Date: June 28, 2004 at 01:05:56 Pacific
Subject: Err:Read-only for Windows partition
Reply: (edit)

Are they formatted to FAT or NTFS? If the
latter its probably a good idea that they
are mounted read only as write support for
NTFS under GNU/Linux is not great. You
should use captive
(http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/).

If they are in FAT then make sure that the
lines in /etc/fstab do not contain "ro" and
if you want all users to be able to write
to the drive put "umask=0" as one of the
options.


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