NTFS Permissions (part 5478)

[juglugs]

Hi Guys,

OK, so I've worked out how to enable all users aswell as root see my WinXP NTFS partitions.

When I first look at the permissions...

cd /mnt
ls -l

I see "drwxr-xr-x 2 root root <Date & Size info> windows/"

yet, when I try to access the disk from KDE's desktop, the ls -l command reverts to : dr-xr-xr-x

I lose my 'w', whcih I assume stands for write access

And lo & behold, I can't write to my windows partition


My /etc/fstab looks like this

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows auto rw,noauto,user,defaults,umask=0000 00

Any Ideas

Using Mandrake 9.0 Beta 2
KDE
NTFS for WinXP

[juglugs]

Oh yeah, I had tried searching etc....

No luck though

[cowanrl]

Have you tried writing to the NTFS partition from the command line as root?

The last I heard, writing to an NTFS partition mounted locally in Linux wasn't supported. They should be mounted read only. If you try to write to it you can corrupt the NTFS partition.

Maybe Mandrake 9 is going to fix that.