Slagathor Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 I have Linux installed, with a 98SE install slaved off the main HDD. But I cannot write to it, I checked the properties and and all the write box's were checked. Any suggestions?????? Rember please, I am a noob..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted February 22, 2003 Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 asuming that the windows partition is /dev/hdb1, it's mount point is /mnt/win_c, and the filesystem is vfat; then as root edit the /etc/fstab file, and modify your windows partition entry acordingly to this template: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,defaults,umask=0,rw 0 0 Once you saved the file, run: root@mandrakeusers ~# mount -o remount /dev/hdb1 root@mandrakeusers ~# At this point you should have write access to your windows partition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted February 22, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2003 Thank you so very much...... :D :D :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted February 24, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2003 Ok, the other day my daughter locked up the computer, I had to hit the reset button now the Windows drive is no longer writable, I checked the fstab file and all the stuff is still there, I tryed mount -o remount /dev/hdb1 but nothing works so far......... Any ideas?????? Thanks for your time...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Post your /etc/fstab file please.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted February 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 //fold/Windows /mnt/Windows smbfs username=% 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,user,exec,defaults,umask=0,rw 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest anon Posted February 25, 2003 Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Seems like it should work, although mine reads: /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c vfat user,exec,defaults,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0,rw 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slagathor Posted February 25, 2003 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2003 Thanks for the help guys, for some strange reason, it is working again...... I just dont understand, I do know, I won't be rebooting again until it is time to reinstall or the power goes out..... :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 Okay I 've tried all this. I am told when I access the /etc/fstab that I don't have permission. What should I do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,ro,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 I changed it to this: /dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,defaults,umask=0,rw 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 My windows verision is XP Pro if that helps any. [/code] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,user,exec,defaults,umask=0,rw 0 0 I changed it to where it has user and it still doesn't work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aru Posted March 1, 2003 Report Share Posted March 1, 2003 I don't know anything about mounting NTFS, but if I don't remember bad that fs can't be mounted in write mode. Maybe I'm wrong though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CloakedPenguin Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 crap... well I know at one time I was able to write to it.... hmmm very odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted March 2, 2003 Report Share Posted March 2, 2003 I think you have to compile the write NTFS into the kernel. From what I've heard, the real issue is that M$ changes features in the NTFS file system and the linux driver isn't updated so what you get is file corruption. I haven't personally tried it though. I just went with making a fat32 instead. Here's my /etc/fstab so you can see how you can format it.. # Linux partitions /dev/hdc5 / reiserfs notail 1 1 /dev/hdc7 /usr reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc8 /home reiserfs notail 1 2 /dev/hdc6 swap swap defaults 0 0 # CD/DVD /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=iso9660,ro,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,user,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0 # FAT32 partitions /dev/hda1 /mnt/win2k vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/software vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hda6 /mnt/windev vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdc9 /mnt/wintemp vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 /dev/hdc10 /mnt/winrip vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 # Some dev none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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