I have programs on a backup partition. Some of those are for XP. When I try copying or moving these files to the windows directory from linux it tells me that it can't make the folder. So I try and change the permissions and it tells me it can't change the permissions. I have done this logged in as root and using the super user file manager. I am using SuSE 9.1. I have checked out other posts and I haven't found the answer, or the problem. I can access /mnt/windows just fine. I can also copy/move files from XP to any other parition. But when I try to copy/move files to the XP partition then I have problems.



Webwolf

If your XP partition is formated with ntfs, you can't really write to the partition. There's no native support yet from linux. It's being worked on. In the meantime, the general solution has been to create a FAT32 partition to use as a share between windows and linux.

Also, there are several utilities out there which promise to be able to write to NTFS from within linux; I haven't tried any mysel, I don't have an ntfs drive to play with. :-D

Do a search on these forums for issues about ntfs, there are many threads about this.

--Shade

Thanks. That would explain it. I will check out the different posts here and in the mean time I will make a fat32 partition to share between the two.




Webwolf