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["A. den Oudsten" <AdenOudsten@xxxxxx>]

Vince Oliver wrote:
> thanks
>
> to which FS to reformat to be writable in both Linux and windows?
>
>
> oliver
>
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Greg Wallace wrote:
>
> > On Friday, January 26, 2007 @ 11:28 AM, Vince Oliver wrote:
> >
> > > Carlos,
> >
> >
> > > It is:
> >
> >
> >
> > > /dev/sda5 on /media/EXTERNAL type subfs
> >
> > (ro,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=ntfs,procuid,nls=utf8)
> >
> >
> > > when trying to write somethingon it thisis the >message:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Read-only file system (30)
> >
> >
> >
> > > oliver
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > There's your answer -- "fs=ntfs".  That means it's a Windows file 
> > system and
> > can only be written to from Windows.  Linux can only read it.  If you 
> > need
> > to be able to write to this device from Linux, you'll need to 
> > re-format the
> > drive to a Linux type of file system (EXT3, Reiser, etc.).
> >
> > Greg Wallace
> >
> >
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I have a drive with vfat, so I can write to it from Linux and Windows.

Greetings,

Andre den Oudsten
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