-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Azrael wrote on Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 09:26:26PM +0000 : > > could anyone tell me how to make my NTFS partitions visible to all users > (or at least 1 specific user), and writable by at least root. > am guessing changing 'ro' to 'rw' does makes them writable.. but will > seek help rather than make errors :)
NO!!!!! Do NOT mount it rw. ntfs support in linux is only read capable. If you attempt to write to it, you will damage your ntfs filesystem so badly that it cannot be recovered. Do *NOT* mount it rw. If you want to share data between win and lin, you need to use a fat32 partition. Blue skies... Todd - -- MandrakeSoft USA http://www.mandrakesoft.com cat /boot/vmlinuz > /dev/dsp #for great justice Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.1-0.1mdk Kernel 2.4.20-0.4mdk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE95UqYlp7v05cW2woRAi9IAKCPB51RdHi2/J0RkhnILZSuMsvilQCfVLjw p1vKlct5jn8p2ujvlYt3LE8= =q31r -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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