hey i got mandrake 10.2
i installed it with the auto partition option
it picked up and mounted my windows drive under
file:/mnt/win_c
but I can't write to that folder I can only read

got any ideas
fellas??

thanks

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its sooooooo cool

ASSUMING YOU USE FAT32:
just mount this drive (the windows one) giving "-o umask=000", or add "umask=000" in the forth column of fstab (this is the option column) on the line that refer to your drive.

ASSUMING YOU USE NTFS:
NTFS write support in linux is very minimal, blame micro$oft to keep their specs secret. The best way is still to use a FAT32 partition to exchange files between linux and windoze.
If you _really_ want to write to NTFS, there a way to load windoze native ntfs drivers in linux. Search about "captive-ntfs" on google.

if it is a ntfs partition it is normal...

well its a ntfs but i also got fat32
so it shows win_c and win_d

so i can use the win_d

but just a little confused here where do you type the "-o umask=000"

thanks

Let me tell you this dude, DON'T write 2 ur windoze partion from linux. If windoze partion is NTFS don't if not it's cool. I remember when i first started 2 fool around w/ linux I wanted to write 2 my windoze partion XP adn yeah I lost all of my stuff, hehehe I remember I didn't sleep that nite i had to re-install everything from xp to zone-alarm lol dang updates please reboot agrrrrrr. hehehehe anyways if its not ntfs partion then you need to change permission then u should be able to write.

I know kernel 2.6.11 has the option to write to ntfs partion but i think it is still experimental, correct me if i am wrong people.

good luck

If you manually mount the partition, then include that at the end of the command. After the -o you can have a comma seperated list of options. The "man mount" and "man fstab" pages will give you details on this.

I would use the options dmask=000,fmask=001 instead, to prevent execution of programs on that drive.

Even better would be to make yourself the owner and group owner of the file with the options "uid=username,gid=username"
This will give you access, but deny other users.

To make life easier, you can use the "diskdrake" program to mount the drive and change the /etc/fstab. Click on the 'expert' mode and add the extra options on the line.

The reason that these mount options are necessary, is because the fat32 filesystem doesn't store these linux attributes. Therefore these options are setup for the entire partition when it is mounted.

By editing the /etc/fstab entry for this fat32 partition, the parition will be mounted when the machine is booting up, and you con't need to mount it every time you boot up the computer.