ixoye777 Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 I have Win2k setup as my second OS on another hard drive. I can read it under my file manager but I cannot write to it. How do I change that? I tried looking under the MCC in Mount Points and set the options for it so that ordinary users can write to it but it did not work. I also right clicked on the drive in my file manager and in the properties I set it so that everyone has write access to it but that did not work either. It is HDB and the mount point is /mnt/win_c2 The other partition that is doing the same thing is on hda and the mount point is /mnt/windows Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 What type is the file system on that HD? Is it vfat or ntfs (more likely)? Both can be made writeble, but in the latter case you will need to install ntfs-3g driver (sorry, I forgot its exact spelling). Search this forum for "writable NTFS" or similar keywords, there have been several threads on this. Or consult Mandriva wiki. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 Confirmed, it is ntfs-3g. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted March 8, 2008 Report Share Posted March 8, 2008 And ntfs-config. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 And ntfs-config. What is it? A driver or a command to configure access to NTFS partitions? Full NTFS access is still on my list of things to try. Meantime I use a vfat partition which is visible to WinXP and Mandriva. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 It gives you the option to Enable write support for external devices & Enable write support for internal devices, as well as showing you the mount point of the device. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 (edited) Can't this be done by directly editing /etc/fstab? I think that used to be a way.... Edit: Do you mean adding an option to do it by click in the MCC? Edited March 9, 2008 by spinynorman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
{BBI}Nexus{BBI} Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 By all means you can still do it the manual way. Ntfs-config is just a popup app that offers make the fstab entries for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 ntfs-config is a nice way to install half the GNOME desktop to your system, regardless if you need it or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coverup Posted March 9, 2008 Report Share Posted March 9, 2008 ntfs-config is a nice way to install half the GNOME desktop to your system, regardless if you need it or not. Thanks, I did not even know such a GUI existed. Hope it works correctly, too :lol2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixoye777 Posted March 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2008 Thanks for the help guys. I installed ntfs-3g used the ntfs-config gui - couldn't be easier. Thanks again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ixoye777 Posted March 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2008 I was browsing the How-To section and ran across this post https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=19212 on writting to NTFS partitions. It has not been updated since 2004 and thought a mod might want to include the ntfs-3g/ntfs-config info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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