cannot create directory `/mnt/win_d/MP3': Read-only file system
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cannot create directory `/mnt/win_d/MP3': Read-only file system
Hi,
I just recently installed Linux Mandrake 9.2.
I can access my windows partition and read file from this partition. The problem is when I want to move or create a new folder. I tried this as a user and then as a root user. This is the answer from my terminal:
It would appear that your Windows installation is set up as NTFS. AFAIK, there is no NTFS writing natively from Linux.
You have 2 options:
1. create a fat 32 partition which can then be accessed by both OSes, or
2. go to sourceforge.net or freshmeat.net and grab a program which will allow you to write to NTFS. It should be noted that these programs are still experimental and your meileage may vary.
Post the output of the 'mount' command here. The Windows partition is probably mounted as read-only. Note that Linux can only read NTFS, no safe writing is available. If it's fat32, then you can write after mounting it read-write.
[root@localhost matt]# mount /mnt/win_e/
mount: /dev/hde6 already mounted or /mnt/win_e busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 is already mounted on /mnt/win_e
[root@localhost matt]#
Currently Linux can not write to NTFS properly. However, progress is being made on the driver, and hopefully it will be done soon.
Another alternative is using the the Windows ntfs driver. I'm not sure if it actually works or if it works well, but you can read more about it here: http://slashdot.org/articles/03/12/02/1536227.shtml
Captive worked for me, though it just slowed down the access to the hdd immensely, and took away way too much CPU time. As they said, your mileage may very. So I decided to make that hdd a linux only disk (now having no mp3s and movies when running Windows makes booting Windows even less desirable )
But AFAIK ntfs-for-linux is not included in the standard-mandrake (could be very well wrong though) , so for me it's not clear whether Matt really has ntfs.
Matt, just copy your /etc/fstab here, so we can take a look
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