Help Me!! I can't write to a mounted (ext3) partition - permission denied!!
 

I'm new at Linux and I've been using openSUSE 10.3 just for a few days. This problematic partition is a leftover from Windows and was previously formated as NTFS. I reformatted it to ext3 because I couldn't copy a single file to it, but a folder "lost+found" appeared that couldn't be deleted and every time I try to copy anything to the partition "Permission denied" message would appear.

What to do? How to solve this?

HELP!!!

You need to find out the name of that partition (e.g./dev/hda3, or /dev/hdc4 or /dev/sda2 etc)
As root you can type '' it will list all the drives.
Then edit your /etc/fstab file

Find the entry with the partition you are talking about and modify it. Mine looks as follows:
After you've modified fstab, as root type: you should be able to write to it now.

hth

I've tried modifying etc/fstab in Kwrite and Kate and each time I get message that I don't have write access to that file. How to change the fstab? Where's the problem?

UPDATE:

New problem, now I cannot write to external disks either!!!!! Where is the problem???

You open a terminal window and type
After this, type the root password. Then type:
Edit the file and save the changes.

I am sorry, if you do not have gedit, you can use kwrite or any other software instead of gedit.