On 27-Aug-2001 Oscar wrote: > Sergio Korlowsky escribis: >> >> On Sunday 26 August 2001 10:25 am, you wrote: >> > On Sunday 26 August 2001 05:11 pm, thus spake Oren Gozlan: >> > > > while installing mandrake and win 2000 on the same machine, the mdk >> > > >> > > detect the other file system and created an entery in the /etc/fstab to >> > > mount it to /mnt/windows... >> > > >> > > but, while trying to access to the mount, i gety masseges that file >> > > system is read only ... >> > > this is the line in the /etc/fstab >> > > /dev/hda5 /mnt/windows vfat >> > > user,exec,suid,dev,rw 0 0 >> > > >> > > does anyone have an idea ? >> > >> > At this time, the NTFS filesystem is read-only. I have heard there is >> > "experimental" write-support in the kernel source, so you can recompile >> > your kernel to get it. But please note that it is not considered >> > release-ready code, and should *not* be used on production systems. >> > >> > Dave >> >> Yes.. but if you check the line in fstab it reads vfat not ntfs ;-) and >> is >> 'rw' what I think its wrong, is... it is not mounted! > > mmm... but, is the filesystem ntfs or vfat? If fstab refers to vfat and > the filesystem is ntfs, this is the reason because the filesystem is not > mounted. > As Dave says, ntfs filesystem is read-only because write-support is > experimental. In order to read the filesystem you can change "vfat" to > "auto". If you need read-write access you must recompile your kernel, > too. > Actually I don't think that the partition is NTFS at all. I've a vfat and a ntfs partition on my harddisk, but the installation program of LM 8.0 just recognized the vfat partition and added it as /mnt/windows. That's why I think that we are facing a vfat partition and not a ntfs one. ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 27-Aug-2001 Time: 11:28:29 ----------------------------------
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