It appears my ntfs mount is read-only. xconsole says: linux kernel: NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only. I'm having problems coping items (e.g.,doc files) from there to my linux drive. Any help here? My fstab says: /dev/hda1, /windows/C, ntfs, noauto,user 0 2 Where am I going wrong? Tom
On Tuesday 21 May 2002 02.05, Tom Nielsen wrote:
It appears my ntfs mount is read-only. xconsole says:
linux kernel: NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only.
As I mentioned to you before, even if you could get the partition mounted read/write you really don't want to write to it. The ntfs code in the kernel is not very good and has been know to corrupt the ntfs partition.
I'm having problems coping items (e.g.,doc files) from there to my linux drive. Any help here? My fstab says:
What sort of problems?
/dev/hda1, /windows/C, ntfs, noauto,user 0 2
You shouldn't have commas after hda1 or C or ntfs. And you certainly shouldn't have the 2 there, change that to a 0. Not that I think fsck would touch an ntfs partition, but why take the risk? regards Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there?
The reason I want to access the NTFS drive is so that I can bring over files from w2k to Linux. I need to access the drive to do this efffectively. I'm not going to write to the drive, just copy. The problem I'm having is that I can only access the drive if I do it thru File Manager Super User. On my home system, I can access other drives without a problem (Because someone's gonna ask...my home win disk is FAT32. ). Secondly, when I do copy over a file (ms word doc for example) I need to access the permissions of the file to be able to open it in either StarOffice or thru Codeweavers Crossoffice. That's a real pain in the ass (opps, is this a family oriented site?). I believe the file problem is caused by me not being able to access the NTFS drive as a user or as read-only. This is why I'm being a pest about all this. In order for me to switch from w2k to linux, I need to be effective. Hear me, hear me....I'M NOT GOING TO WRITE TO THE NTFS DRIVE...JUST COPY FROM IT. I boo-boo'd on the commas. I'll remove those and change the 2 to a 0. Any ideas on not being able to access documents unless I'm root? I'm copying files while in root. Does that make a difference? Chow! Tom P.S. I don't have this problem on my home system...just work. On Mon, 2002-05-20 at 17:10, Anders Johansson wrote: On Tuesday 21 May 2002 02.05, Tom Nielsen wrote: > It appears my ntfs mount is read-only. xconsole says: > > linux kernel: NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting > read-only. As I mentioned to you before, even if you could get the partition mounted read/write you really don't want to write to it. The ntfs code in the kernel is not very good and has been know to corrupt the ntfs partition. > > I'm having problems coping items (e.g.,doc files) from there to my linux > drive. Any help here? My fstab says: What sort of problems? > > /dev/hda1, /windows/C, ntfs, noauto,user 0 2 You shouldn't have commas after hda1 or C or ntfs. And you certainly shouldn't have the 2 there, change that to a 0. Not that I think fsck would touch an ntfs partition, but why take the risk? regards Anders -- I swear I do declare - how did you get that there? -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Tom, FWIW, below is the ntfs partition line from my fstab. I think Anders had, in an email earlier, cleared up some of the problems with the fstab entry. Other then the umask=022, they are very nearly alike. /dev/hda2 /tp770x/C ntfs ro,noauto,user,umask=022 0 0 Have you tried to mount the partition from a console as a user? I would wonder at the user permissions on the machine you are attempting this data transfer. In checking I see that the harddrive devices all belong to group 'disk', so that might be a place to look. I know my "users" are part of that group. I usually roll the ntfs-read support into my kernel (currently 2.4.16 on SuSE 7.1) so I can copy over data and docs I have had to initially install under some form of windows (currently XPPro). (The funny thing is that I have no problem writing to my HPFS partitions, but would never try to write to the ntfs, teehee.) I try to do as many programming assignments (classwork) from Linux as I can; then hop over to windows only when I have to... Hope that helps, and I am in no way expert on any of this... just know what has worked for me. Good Luck! -- ThankYouKindly! Willard E. [Bill] Fullam III wfullam@bellsouth.net http://personal.atl.bellsouth.net/~wfullam
On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 05:05:26PM -0700, Tom Nielsen wrote:
It appears my ntfs mount is read-only. xconsole says:
linux kernel: NTFS: Warning! NTFS volume version is Win2k+: Mounting read-only.
Yes. You would have to recompile your kernel in order to write to an NTFS partition, and it would warn you how dangerous it is, and you'd be at risk of destroying that partition. If you want to get rid of the warning, change "noauto,user" in /etc/fstab to "noauto,user,ro". -tara
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