Establishing write permission for an external hard drive in SUSE 10.3
 

Hello people. I have an external hard drive I want to transfer data to from my laptop that has SUSE on but apparently ext3 can't write to NTFS. I tried to change the permissions of the drive by right clicking on it in the "my computer" window, properties->permissions but it would not let me do so. A friend recommended that I downloaded the NTFS-3g pack and so I did. However, my problem is that I dont know how to use this program to make my disk able to write to. Any ideas?

(My disk is located at /media/New Volume)

You would mount the drive partition with the ntfs-3g file system choice. Docs from the ntfs-3g package mentions commands to mount a ntfs partition using ntfs-3g

Brian

can we wdout NTFS-3g??

can we wdout NTFS-3g??

What is wdout?

Brian

SuSE 10.3 has the ntfs-3g driver.

It would be better to format a/the external drive to a native Linux filetype.

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I think that you need the "fuse" kernel module loaded to use ntfs-3g. There is an ntfs-3g man page.
"man 8 ntfs-3g"

windows + linux compatibility
 

keep in mind if you format the drive using a fs native to linux you'll have a difficult time getting windows to read the drive. there is software out there that'll allow windows to read the drive, but it isn't built in to the windows OS.

Really, I don't understand why windows hasn't incorporated other FS into their OS... I suspected marketing at first, they'd loose a share in the market because they'd be offering a choice to users, but really the FS has nothing to do with why people use windows... integration would just make my life easier.

Warning you might want to check with your external drive's user manual
before you reformat to a new fs!
Some of the external drives come with s/w (features) that only work with
or expect the drive to be ntfs.
Also you might be able to resize the ntfs partition to allow a Linux
partition to be added also, which might be better.


Good luck.