[SOLVED] Cannot write to NTFS or FAT32 partitions

porphyry5 · 03-22-2011, 02:26 PM

I have 13.1 as a dual boot with xp on a 40G hd. There is a 500G hd where I keep all my files, in ntfs format, and I have usb sticks in fat32 and ntfs. When I installed 13.1 I chose read and write access for all users for all of these media.

13.1 will read from them, but will not write to them. How can I fix this?

T3slider · 03-22-2011, 02:31 PM

Are you mounting with ntfs-3g or with regular ntfs? ntfs-3g should add write capability assuming the correct mount options are passed, whereas the legacy ntfs mount is read-only.

porphyry5 · 03-22-2011, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by T3slider

Are you mounting with ntfs-3g or with regular ntfs? ntfs-3g should add write capability assuming the correct mount options are passed, whereas the legacy ntfs mount is read-only.

Not sure what you mean here. In the install of 13.1 it said the ntfs partitions on the hd and the ntfs usb had been set up as ntfs-3g, the others were not, they are fat32. But when tried, I could not write to the hd nor to a fat32 usb. So am I not able to write to fat32 at all, and do I have to mount the ntfs drives every time I want to write to them?

allend · 03-22-2011, 05:31 PM

Have you seen rworkman's guide to this?
http://slackwiki.org/Windows_Partitions

porphyry5 · 03-23-2011, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by allend

Have you seen rworkman's guide to this?
http://slackwiki.org/Windows_Partitions

I hadn't, and its just what I needed. Many thanks.