I'v recently installed Mandrake 9.2 and automounted the system.
Before I had installed linux I had (and still do) a NTFS Windows partition which is located in file:/windows/ which seems to have the mods of
while every file inside taht directory seems to have the mods of
which does not let me write inside the directory or change any of its setting even though I am logged in as superuser or root.

Is there any possible way to unlock windows? I'v tried chmod +w /windows/ but it didnt seem to work, any suggestions?

Hi.

Most linux systems can't write NTFS. You'll have to install a more recent kernel to write on these partitions.

(I could be wrong, but the latest RedHat versions can't write to NTFS, because it's not supported by the kernel).

Dave

Try using the -R switch like this :

chmod -R 755 windows/

That will cause your windows/ dir to only be writeable by root but it should give you the permissions to write to it now. The -R switch just means recursive. Check out the man pages for chmod for more info.

just executed that command and it seems to be changing everytihng inside of it , btw what does 755 mean? and 733 also?

edit: it seems to still unallow me to write files to it, maybe i should get rid of windows forever?

See this site:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net

Linux has trouble writing to NTFS partitions. Even if you get it to work, there's a small chance data might be corrupted. You can't really change the file system type Windows runs on unless you're using Windows 95/98/ME, which use FAT32 instead of NTFS. Windows 2000/NT and Windows XP are stuck with NTFS until the next version (Longhorn) releases OFS aka "Windows" FS.

About the "755", imagine that 4 = read, 2 = write, 1 = execute.
So the first digit means that the owner of the file and root can read, write and execute (4 + 2 + 1 = 7)
The second digit means users in the same group as the creator can read and execute but not write (4 + 1 = 5)
The third digit means that all other users can read and execute but not write (4 + 1 = 5)

733 means that the creator and root can do everything, but everyone else can only write and execute, not read. (2 + 1 = 3)

possible to make 777?

if you want to read/write to ntfs partitions, give this a looksie.

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

you'll need to edit your /etc/fstab file afterwards with the umask option since chmod'ing a windows partition will not work. the basic way to get default rw access for everyone (i don't recommend this since this opens up your windows partitions to everyone) is to add this line in the options:

umask=0000

an expanded /etc/fstab entry:

/dev/hda10 /winpar/winI vfat auto,owner,umask=0000,exec,rw 0 0

this is a modified example. not one that i'd recommend or use. i also use fat32, so for ntfs, you'd change vfat to ntfs.