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.
Since your machine is a laptop, and utmost security should not be an issue, why not convert the Windows filesystem to FAT32? That's what I did and I can write to /windows/C with no problems. I used Partition Magic to do the conversion. Dan