Task: Mount a Windows 2000 NTFS partition using DemoLinux (v2.0) and delete/rename/copy files on the partition Problem: Upon trying to delete/rename/copy any file on the NTFS partition, I get "Access denied" or "Cannot unlink file" peice of s--- errors Attempts made: I can successfully mount the NTFS partition with read/write priviledges using the standard: 'mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winnt -o rw' (using 'mount' shows that the mount is in fact set to rw) - but I still get the errors I can successfully use 'chmod -v a+rw somefilename' to make sure the user has read/write access to the files (using 'l' shows that the files are in fact set to rw) - but I still get the errors Miscellaneous: I am logged on as root I already searched our friend google.com I've read the other NTFS posts in EH I know about the Linux boot disk at http://home.eunet.no/~pnordahl/ntpasswd/ DemoLinux is a bootable Linux CD that loads into memory and runs off the CDROM (i.e. it isn't installed to the harddisk) Anyone have any suggestions on this? Thanks,

Read access on NTFS is currently ok. Write access however is severely ALPHA code. It is completely broken. There are projects working to improve this but until MS decides to stop being so proprietary your problem will remain for some time.

are u sure your kernel is configured to write to NTFS partitions?

if you _MUST_ be able to write to ntfs i would prefer to export the ntfs filesystem as a share and access it via samba. this is a MUCH safer method.