Please, find in the following the list of partitions. As root from SuSE I tried to change the access rights to a partition with ntfs file system. Apparently the mode change is performed even ifactually no change has taken place: mauede@bordighera:/home> su - Password: bordighera:/home # ll total 8 drwxr-xr-x 33 mauede users 4096 Aug 31 22:43 mauede drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Jul 30 05:31 storage bordighera:/home # chmod a+w ./storage/ bordighera:/home # ll total 8 drwxr-xr-x 33 mauede users 4096 Aug 31 22:43 mauede drwxr-xr-x 1 root users 4096 Jul 30 05:31 storage bordighera:/home # chmod a+r ./storage/ bordighera:/home # ll Do I need a special Linux driver to access an ntfs file system ? /etc/fstab file contents: dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Maxtor_6Y080M0_Y21GWDCC-part4 /home/storage ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 Thank you in advance, Maura -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org