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