Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Mike McMullin wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: > >> Mike McMullin wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: >>> >>> Clayton wrote: >> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach!

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Mike McMullin wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: > > > >> Clayton wrote: > >> > I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a > different way of moving files between Linu

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Mike McMullin wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: Clayton wrote: I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. T

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Mike McMullin
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 07:36 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Clayton wrote: > >> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a > >> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, > >> > >> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. > > > > The way used to

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* John Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-10-07 22:07]: [...] > In any event, my statement was tongue in cheek, which is why > it was phrased the way it was, and there is no need to pull > this thread further off topic to revisit that open wound. More like "Foot in MOUTH". IF you weren't *goading*

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread James Knott
Clayton wrote: >> I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a >> different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, >> >> Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. > > The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions > are Reiser

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Catimimi
Alan Lenton a écrit : There is the NTFS-3G project http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ that have a stable way to write to NTFS. I've never been brave enough to try it on any NTFS partitions, so I cannot vouch for how good this driver really is... maybe someone here has played with it though, and can comment

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 11 May 2007, G T Smith wrote: > >> Message was signed with unknown key 0x29CB9A02. >> The validity of the signature cannot be verified. >> gpgkeys: key 6AC374B129CB9A02 not found on keyserver >> G T Smith wrote: > >

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Clayton
The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS. Linux can read NTFS with no problems... so on the rare occasion I needed to snag a file from the XP partition, I can. On the other hand if I happened to be booted to Windows (err.. someth

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2007 09:53 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a > different way of moving files betwee

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Clayton
I think this definately calls for a conservative approach! I'll find a different way of moving files between Linux and Windows, Many thanks to everyone who offered help on this issue. The way used to I do this was relatively simple... My Linux partitions are Reiser, my XP partition was NTFS.

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 14:17 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > > | Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always > > | mounts >> NTFS

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread John Andersen
On Friday 11 May 2007, G T Smith wrote: > Message was signed with unknown key 0x29CB9A02. > The validity of the signature cannot be verified. > gpgkeys: key 6AC374B129CB9A02 not found on keyserver > G T Smith wrote: Kmail always puts this at the top of your messages, after grinding quite a whil

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G T Smith wrote: > Alan Lenton wrote: > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 >> To: opensuse@opensuse.org >> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Window

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Kenneth Schneider
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Lenton wrote: > Hi, > > SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows > ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). ^ |--= ReadOnly Which is the correct default for NTFS partitions on linux. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-11 Thread Patrick Shanahan
* James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [05-10-07 09:57]: [...] > AFIK, NTFS write support is "experimental". This means that it will > be about as reliable as writing to it under Windows. ;-) Touchett :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USAHOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:55 -0400, James Knott wrote: > Alan Lenton wrote: > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 > > To: opensuse@opensuse.org > > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Window

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 10 May 2007, James Knott wrote: > John Andersen wrote: > > On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: > >> Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical > >> filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to > >> write to NTFS with any measure of reliab

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: > >> Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical >> filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to >> write to NTFS with any measure of reliability. >> > > Of course if the MS/Novell cro

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 10 May 2007, Clayton wrote: > Definitely not wise to change from ro.  NTFS is not your typical > filesystem, and it's only been recently that Linux has been able to > write to NTFS with any measure of reliability. Of course if the MS/Novell cross license agreement (hiding under the ban

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Lenton wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 > To: opensuse@opensuse.org > Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > >> SuSE 10

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread James Knott
Alan Lenton wrote: -Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Clayton
> | Is it an NTFS drive that you're trying to mount? openSUSE always mounts NTFS formatted partitions as | | ReadOnly. It is indeed. Do I deduce from this that it isn't wise to change it to ReadWrite? Definitely not wise to change from ro. NTFS is not your typical filesystem, and it's only

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Mike McMullin
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 13:04 +0100, Alan Lenton wrote: > Hi, > > SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows > ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). > > Is there any reason for this? I want to be able to write files in that > partition. If that was the case would I need to d

RE: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Alan Lenton
-Original Message- From: Clayton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 May 2007 13:11 To: opensuse@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly > SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows > ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). > >

Re: [opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Clayton
SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). Is there any reason for this? I want to be able to write files in that partition. If that was the case would I need to do anything else except knock out the 'ro' element? Is it an NTFS drive

[opensuse] Windows mount is ReadOnly

2007-05-10 Thread Alan Lenton
Hi, SuSE 10.2 is mounting my Windows file system read only ( fstab shows ro,users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0). Is there any reason for this? I want to be able to write files in that partition. If that was the case would I need to do anything else except knock out the 'ro' element? alan lenton -