Unpacking files=Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system
 

Hello

I´m have a susex installation and I´m a total newbie. I have also a windows installation on my hard disk. In windows mode I have downloaded a few programs that I would like to use with my linux. They have the file endings *.tar or *.tar.tar or *tar.gz

So they shoud unpacked, i go in shell command and type:

tar -xvzf *.tar.gz

for every program I get the same error message:

Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
Cannot mkdir: Read-only file system

prineted over and over together with different filenames...

I have a NTSF windows file system, maybe linux can´t use that?

looking forward for any help:-)

maybe I can start up the programs with out the shell, or there is a more user friendly shell interface?

All the best!

Regenten.

Hi,

From what I have read, writing to a NTFS file system support is still experimental. I believe that you can write to NTFS but don't be surprised if it doesn't work. I'm not sure how to do this you would probably need to re-compile your kernel or load extra modules into your kenel. I'm still a noob, so if anyone has suggestion/comments on how to do this?, and how good is the write access for NTFS?

Thank you Tim,

yes I also tried to save my error loggs in to a txt file to bring back to windows and to seach the internet. But also this I could not save on my hard disk. But then I tried with a floppy and it went allright.

Hmmmm....

The strange thing is that the installaton ran totally without any problems on the NTSF file system....

looking forward for some help....

You should check out this site:

Captive: NTFS read/write filesystem
http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

I havn't tried it but there are some threads in theforums about this.

Here are some workarounds:
http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/in...#3.2workaround
(ext2/ext3 file system support for windows so that you can transfer files back)

Hope it helps :)

P.S Tell me how you go...

You could do tar xzvf file.tar.gz -C /path/to/a/directory/on/your/linux/system
or
copy the archive to your linux system and extract it there

You should always put a FAT32 partition on your hard disk as well as NTFS. (Just to let u know, it is not NTSF, it stands for New Technology File System). Linux can write to a FAT32 partition perfectly.