Smartistic Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 before installing mandriva i had two partitions c and d. d was for data. i installed linux on c. i can access d on mandriva but i can't wrtie to it. I logged as root and right clicked the hard disk partition and tried to change to read and modify but i get an error message. please help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Posts this file: /etc/fstab It's the text configuration file that controls the mounting and access permissions. If your "D" drive is NTFS, you can only have read permissions. Linux does not support writing to NTFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 7, 2006 Report Share Posted March 7, 2006 Actually you can use "captive-ntfs" and write to NTFS partitions (albeit slowly), but the latest captive-ntfs revisions need fuse builtin the kernel- and that happened with kernel 2.6.14. Mandriva uses kernel 2.6.12, without fuse, and for that you will have to use an older version- much slower, and less reliable. If your windows D: partition isn't too large ( = 30GB or smaller), you can use a commercial partition manager to convert it to FAT32, which is easily writable with every 2.6.X kernel revision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smartistic Posted March 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2006 If your "D" drive is NTFS, you can only have read permissions. Linux does not support writing to NTFS. it's ntfs i didn't know that linux can't write on ntfs drives. thanks anyways. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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