Glenn Hollowell <glenn@kpunet.net> writes:

I've just installed SuSE 8.1 on my hard drive which had Windows 2000 on an NTFS partition. The partition was detected just fine and Grub was configured without a hitch. The only problem is that the Windows partition is read-only. In the past, (w/SuSE 8.0 and earlier) I'd had Win2000 on a Vfat partition...this worked great as I was able to read, write and save files on c:/ from my Linux partition. Any suggestions? Then I try to enable the write permission for c:/ drive, (when logged in as root) I get a "this drive is read only" error message. I've tried several fstab configurations, but have made no progress.

YAST wrote the following line for c:/ when I installed 8.1...

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

Which I've changed to...

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs noauto,user,exec 0 0

...initially this was set as a read-only partition as indicated in the first Fstab statement...does something else need to be changed aside from the fstab to allow writing to this partition from linux?

Thanks in advance for all advice and clarity rendered

markgray@soyo:~> zgrep NTFS /proc/config.gz CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m # CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG is not set # CONFIG_NTFS_RW is not set markgray@soyo:~> You need to compile your own kernel with CONFIG_NTFS_RW support set.

From /usr/src/linux/Configure.help

CONFIG_NTFS_RW This enables the experimental write support in the NTFS driver. WARNING: Do not use this option unless you are actively developing NTFS as it is currently guaranteed to be broken and you may lose all your data! It is strongly recommended and perfectly safe to say N here. [end quote] If you really need it you should look into: SourceForge.net: Project Info - Linux NTFS file system support http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/