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Change Permissions For Read-Only Filesystem

Kinda stuck on this and it's confusing me. I'm trying to transfer a text file into my usb flash-drive with mc(midnight commander) but it said that it's a read-only file system. The usb flash-drive is mounted on /mnt/memory. So now I'm trying to change permissions for /mnt/memory to have rw access. When I do this:

Code:

# chmod u=rw memory/

I get this:

Quote:

chmod: changing permissions of `memory/': Read-only file system

The output of ls -l:

Code:

dr-x------ 1 root root 12288 2008-06-19 22:57 memory

The output of fstab:

Code:

cat /etc/fstab 

/dev/hda5        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/hda2        /                ext3        defaults        1  1

/dev/hda6        /usr            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda7        /home            ext3        defaults        1  2

/dev/hda1        /fat-c          ntfs-3g    umask=077        1  0

#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      auto        noauto,owner,ro  0  0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

tmpfs            /dev/shm        tmpfs      defaults        0  0

The filesystem is /dev/sda1 and mounted on /mnt/memory type ntfs (rw)

I'm not sure where to go from here.

You should mount the drive using the ntfs-3g type if you want to write to it. The following command should mount the device appropriately:

Code:

# mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/memory

This will only be writable by root, however, because of the way ntfs-3g is setup. If you want it to be rw for all users, you would have to set the setuid bit. I don't have any ntfs-formatted devices to test that on, so take my advice with a grain of salt. A search in these forums for ntfs-3g should yield the answer you seek.

Yea that worked out.

...and for users to have rw, I think it would be like this:

Code:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/memory rw,users,umask=1000