mandriva 2006 & permissions for /mnt/C/

santiagosilva · 08-15-2006, 12:38 AM

I have the wierdest problem.

I can't seem to make /mnt/C/ (my windows partition) accesable. even as root I can't write to it.
the message says :

Read only file system.

and I've tried
chmod +w
and also the built in permission changing program, but I keep getting the error message that I'm not allowed to change it. Even as root.

Thanks for your help

//S

w3bd3vil · 08-15-2006, 02:02 AM

yup, it aint an error. windows partitions are ntfs. This file ext is only readable by linux as of now. So you will only be able to read from it.

santiagosilva · 08-15-2006, 05:07 AM

ahh!
that's right! I totaly forgot about that!boy is my face red!

thanks for your help.

//S-man

DaneM · 08-15-2006, 05:45 AM

If you want write access to it (beyond what's in the kernel), you should download the necessary files for ntfsutils. Once the modules are loaded and the filesystem is mounted with the ntfs-fuse type, you should have almost complete write access to your drive.

Hope that helps.

--Dane

markepoo · 08-23-2006, 02:17 PM

what would happen if

a) files migrated to another disk
b) use Linux fdisk/format to intialize the former ntfs disk.

DaneM · 08-23-2006, 05:55 PM

That should work; I've done it before. What do you want to format the old drive as (FAT, NTFS, EXT3, ReiserFS, etc.)? Depending on the format, you may need to install some specific tools.

--Dane

markepoo · 08-23-2006, 08:06 PM

my goal is to get it reformatted as a plain jane linux volume. i'm into keeping it real simple for now until my newbie-ness wears off.

DaneM · 08-23-2006, 09:45 PM

understandable. If I were you, I would use cfdisk to partition it. Be sure to set its type to "Linux." Then use mkfs.ext3 /dev/<volume><partition> to format it. This will give you a "default" (inasmuch as there is a default) Linux partition.

Let me know if you need any more help creating or mounting (or fstab-ing) the partition.

--Dane