cannot assign write permissions to sda1

flygirl · 08-25-2007, 07:09 PM

i want to assign all permissions to my windows partition (titled sda1 in ubuntu) but when i attempt to in the terminal (even as root) it says that it does not exist the command i am using is chmod a=rx sda1 i have also tried several folders and files in the partition, help please!!!

gilead · 08-25-2007, 07:18 PM

Windows partitions don't support Linux permissions so the chmod command won't work the way you expect it to. You need to mount the partition with the required permissions. Have a look at the man page for the mount command - in it are options such as umask, uid and gid that will allow you to set the access type for the permission.

Please search for mounting fat32 or mounting ntfs partitions - there are quite a few posts here that deal with this.

jay73 · 08-25-2007, 11:14 PM

unmount the windows partition and put this in your /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /home/your username/windows ntfs-3g rw,exec,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=0000 1 2

Remember to make a windows folder in your home directory first.

Reboot or use mount -a.

You may still find that you aren't getting the expected permissions, if so:
chown -R username:username /home/username/windows