Hello all,

I have been working on changing the permissions to my windows partition, but for some reason it is not working....

[eek@eek mnt]$ su
Password:

[root@eek mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 16 23:31 cdrom/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 19 16:13 hd/
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 Jul 1 16:07 win_c/

[root@eek mnt]# chmod 777 win_c/
chmod: changing permissions of `win_c/': Read-only file system

[root@eek mnt]# chown eek win_c
chown: changing ownership of `win_c': Read-only file system

[root@eek mnt]# exit
exit
[eek@eek mnt]$

Any ideas what I am doing worng? I have been following Quick and Dirty Guide to Linux Permissions but somehow I did something wrong....

Thanks a bunch,
Eric.

The partition mounted at /mnt/win_c is mounted read-only.

Watch in the /etc/fstab file for the /mnt/win_c line, it has the "ro" option for sure.

Finidi......thanks for helping....

This is the out put of: file:/etc/fstab/

/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
none /mnt/hd supermount dev=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,kudzu,codepage=850 0 0

I see the line that you are talking about, but, and sorry about this, what do I do with it?

Thanks,
Eric.

Replace that line with:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

now the partition will mount rw.

Ahhhhhh.....that did it, thanks for the help!

Eric.

Okay !.... but, with that fstab line only root can mount and modify files on that partition. Surely you want to access that from a nonprivileged user.

If that's the case, replace the line with

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1, user 0 0


HTH,