I am using Mandriva 2005 LE, on a Toshiba Satellite A10 (Celeron 2.4, 512MB)

I have an external 60Gb USB harddrive which I have no problem to read or write in Windows. In Mandriva, however, I cannot write or delete files in it. I tryed to google out the answer with no success! I have found a very similar thread but without a solution to the problem:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ice+write+only

I used windows to format this memory the first time after I bought it. Does anyone know what's going on here???

Thanks for the help!

It depends what file system windows formatted it as, FAT32 is readable/writeable by Unix type systems, however mounting it requires the umask=<the permissions you want> option as it can't handle inerent Unix permissions.

If it's NTFS then support for it is a bit shakey and at the present time it's not reccomended to write to (there are programs that can i hear)

What command do you use to mount/post the line of your /etc/fstab

I don't use any commands... It does it all by itself. I plug the HDD in the usb, the computer recognizes it and it shows me an icon where I can access it. I can read all files but not write or delete. I don't remember if I formatted FAT32 or not ! Is there any way of checking this out?
Here is my fstab:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=utf8,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0022,nls=utf8,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/removable ntfs pamconsole,exec,noauto,utf8,iocharset=utf8,rw 0 0

If this is the device in question:
Then the drive is formatted with the NTFS filesystem.

Hummm... I see... So things don't look too good! Thanks for helping!