Glenn Hollowell wrote:
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.
I think this is currently correct: linux does not allow you to write to NTFS because not enough is known about it to do this safely. The kind of solution that works reasonably is to create a VFAT partition that you can write and NTFS can read. Alternatively, there may be tools out there to read/write your linux partitions from Win2000: linux uses open filesystems; so it's much easier to find out in detail how they work. JDL