George Olson wrote:
Hello all, I am running Suse 11.1 and just installed a dual Windows/ Suse installation on my pc. I am a total newbie at Linux so please bear with me :)
I am using the KDE desktop. I have 4 partitions on my hard drive, with my C drive for windows, and my data drive (labeled E in windows, but D in Linux - this is the drive I want to share between operating systems), and then my extended partition in Linux, which has a swap drive, root, and home.
when I want to look at the contents of the data drive using the Dolphin navigator, it checks out ok on this path: /windows/D.
But I wrote a test document in the open office spreadsheet and saved it in my home directory. Then I tried to copy it into /windows/D, and there is no "paste" option when i right click in D.
so I checked the permissions using the "mount" command in a terminal window and this is what I got for the D drive:
/dev/sda2 on /windows/D type fuseblk (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
Can anyone help me figure out how to enable writing data to this drive/partition? Ultimately I want to install Mozilla Thunderbird in both Windows and Suse, and be able to access the data on this shared drive, so that I can do email in either operating system. But before that, I have to be simply be able to read and write to my shared data partition, which I cannot do right now.
Thanks in advance for your help
Whoa George, Your moving kind of fast for a newbie here... First, lets get a little more information about your linux setup so I can make sure we are talking apples-to-apples here. Open konsole and post the output of the following two commands: cat /proc/partitions mount Basically what you are going to need to do is to select an empty partition and then format it in FAT32. That is the only way (absent a couple of tools under development) to share a partition on the same machine between windows and linux. Linux can read NTFS just fine, but writing to it directly from linux is worse than Russian roulette. If the disks are on separate computers, then there is no problem at all with the SAMBA/CIFS set of tools. But to write to a partition that windows can read in a dual-boot scenario, fat32 is the ticket. There is of course the solution of virtualizing windows within linux while running samba on linux, then you can share disk space just as if the operating systems were running on separate boxes. See: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads Here is a screenshot to whet your couriosity: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/linux/apps/virtualbox/vbox-XP-on-openSuS... Also, if you are new to linux, let me share a couple of must have kde apps with you. (1) basket notepad; (2) keepassx. Both are available for open suse. Also, if you haven't already downloaded and installed webpin (for finding packages for opensuse, the install that first. It will make finding software a breeze. The webpin rpm can be found here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/ You can use the web interface here: http://packages.opensuse-community.org/ Post the requested information and we'll get your file sharing problem sorted out. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org