I have SuSe 10 and I seem to be having a little problem with FStab. I am trying to configure my FStab file so I can write to my Windows partition, however, whenever I try to edit and save my FStab file, it creates a new Fstab file named "FStab~" and uses "FStab~" as the default. If i configure fstab~, then it creates "Fstab~~" and uses that file as default. How can I configure my system (or Yast) to use one "Fstab" file and not to keep on using a copy of the original fstab.

Delete Fstab~ and Fstab~~.
I think these file was created by your text editor as a backup.
the problem is why your SUSE use those backup file.
Anyway, just delete these file, you had your favorite fstab.

Are you sure it's using the file ending in '~'? The tilde is sometimes used by editors to save the original of a file in case the changes mess up the new one.

If you post your /etc/fstab file here and tell us what you need it to do, someone here will probably be able to help.

I got 3 Windows Partitions (All in NTFS) I want to enable access to the "E" partition so I can transfer files I download from Linux over to Windows. This is what is shown in FStab under the partition that I want to enable write access to.

/dev/hda6 /windows/E ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=0000,nls=utf8, 0 0

Any ideas gentlemen?

NTFS support under Linux is (to my knowledge) still experimental, Read is OK, write is ??
From that perspective it might be better to 'convert' your E partition to FAT32.

Can you tell us what the problem is? It does not mount at boot, you can't mount at all, you can't read etc etc etc
Any error messages?

I got no error problems, it's just that as I stated earlier, I want to be able to move files between Linux and Windows, and since Windows doesn't recognize the Linux file system, i was hoping I could find a way to write to my 'E' Windows Partition from Linux.

dont do it. At last check, writing from Linux to a NTFS partition could fry the entire file system if you do anything more then modify a file (and by that, if you make the file bigger in any way, you could hose the file system.). It might have improved, but its still very expirimential and will most likely fry your NTFS partition. There are some packages for windows you can use, to be able to read/write to ext2/3 (im not sure about other file systems, youll have to check). So, if you really need to have Linux read and write to windows readable partition, use the older FAT file system, or get windows to read and write to a Linux partition.

Linux don't like NTFS and NTFS hate linux, my friend

Your first post stated that it SUSE used the old fstab. So that's solved now.

So you can now mount and read (and write?) and unmount. Great

FYI: depending on the filesystem you use under Linux, you can turn it around:Ext2 File System Driver for NT/2K/XP

Oh ja, and another option might be a USB-stick / USB HD with FAT32.