Help Me!! I can't write to a mounted (ext3) partition

goja · 12-28-2007, 02:44 AM

I'm new at Linux and I've been using openSUSE 10.3 just for a few days. This problematic partition is a leftover from Windows and was previously formated as NTFS. I reformatted it to ext3 because I couldn't copy a single file to it, but a folder "lost+found" appeared that couldn't be deleted and every time I try to copy anything to the partition "Permission denied" message would appear.

What to do? How to solve this?

HELP!!!

sycamorex · 12-28-2007, 03:01 AM

You need to find out the name of that partition (e.g./dev/hda3, or /dev/hdc4 or /dev/sda2 etc)
As root you can type '

Quote:

fdisk -l

' it will list all the drives.
Then edit your /etc/fstab file

Find the entry with the partition you are talking about and modify it. Mine looks as follows:

Code:

/dev/sda8       /home/sycamorex/data    auto            auto,rw,user    0       0

After you've modified fstab, as root type:

Quote:

mount -a

you should be able to write to it now.

hth

goja · 12-28-2007, 04:36 AM

I've tried modifying etc/fstab in Kwrite and Kate and each time I get message that I don't have write access to that file. How to change the fstab? Where's the problem?

UPDATE:

New problem, now I cannot write to external disks either!!!!! Where is the problem???

deepumnit · 12-28-2007, 04:52 AM

You open a terminal window and type

Code:

su

After this, type the root password. Then type:

Code:

gedit /etc/fstab &

Edit the file and save the changes.

deepumnit · 12-28-2007, 04:54 AM

I am sorry, if you do not have gedit, you can use kwrite or any other software instead of gedit.