Boris Epstein wrote:
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 1:56 PM, Sharique uddin Ahmed Farooqui
wrote: Hi, How I can enable write support for users for ntfs partitions? I'm using opensuse 11.0. It was working fine in 10.3
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I am not 100% sure you can. I think - at least until recently - Linux only allowed you to mount NTFS partitions read-only, the reason being that M$ kept the specs proprietary.
Install these packages; not sure it ntfsprogs is absolutely necessary. S | Name | Summary | Type --+-----------------+------------------------------------------------------------+-------- i | ntfs-3g | Linux NTFS-3G userspace filesystem with full write support | package i | ntfs-config | Enable and disable write support for NTFS partitions | package i | ntfsprogs | NTFS filesystem libraries and utilities | package Then, cat /dev/disk/by-id/*. Create an fstab entry like this: /dev/disk/by-id/usb-ST375033_0NS_xxxx-part1 /home/ed/IOMEGA750 ntfs-3g auto,users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0 based on your by-id result. I choose a mount point in my home directory because I am the only user on this machine, and this ensures that it is writeable. If the drive already has a <label>, it should automatically mount in /media/<label>. When you run ntfs-config, you can choose a mount point and enable write permissions. Ed -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org