Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2271 mails)

[Brad Shelton <bshelton@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 12:51, Donald Grayson wrote:
> Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote:
> 
> >I have Suse 9.0 and Windows XP installed on the same Pentium M laptop machine. 
> >>From within linux, I can copy files from the windows/C shared folder to other 
> >linux folders. I cannot do the opposite. I could do it though in another 
> >machine with Suse 9.0 and Windows 98 installed on it.
> >
> >I tried to change the permissions of windows/C folder as root, but it was not 
> >possible. In the file etc/fstab I changed the appropriate line to
> >
> >/dev/hda1            /windows/C           ntfs       
> >rw,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
> >
> >but no luck.
> >
> >Any hint?
> >Dimitris
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> NTFS filesystems have database like structures that make writing to them 
> extremely difficult. It is quite easy to destroy your NTFS filesystem if 
> you try from inside Linux.
> 
> You can safely mount and read an NTFS volume but I would seriously avoid 
> attempting to write to one. There are tools to let Windows read your 
> EXT/ReiserFS file systems, also in a read only mode so that you could 
> boot into Windows and copy over the data from there. Or you could setup 
> a 'shared' drive either internal or external USB and format it with 
> FAT32, which both OSes can read and write to.

If one had an additional disk, they might consider mounting it with a
vfat system on it so it is commonly available to both Winders and
Leeeenux.

Just a thought... that's what I do, anywho....

`*8>

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