On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 11:46 -0600, 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
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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.).
This is not quite correct. NTFS can be written to from Linux, there are various projects for this, one of which uses MS' own NTFS.SYS driver file. IIRC the latest version of Knoppix has NTFS write abilities. The down side to this, last I looked, was that they are all alpha level software. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org