[SOLVED] Re: Cannot write to other partitions

[kyle5434]

I have a perplexing, somewhat related issue.

I have a couple of ntfs partitions, as indicated by:

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/dev/sda1: UUID="D42C637C2C63588E" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="a6d9af1f-c580-4790-b4ac-d8b61ee92d0f" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda6: UUID="b09e1b90-56d2-4b86-8125-cf4fc29170cc" TYPE="swap"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda7: UUID="C4B86CB0B86CA2A2" TYPE="ntfs"

As a super user, I  created a couple of mount points.

/windows/system for sda1, and
/windows/documents for sda7

I added the corresponding lines to the end of my fstab:

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# Entry for /dev/sda5 :
UUID=a6d9af1f-c580-4790-b4ac-d8b61ee92d0f / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda6 :
UUID=b09e1b90-56d2-4b86-8125-cf4fc29170cc swap swap defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=D42C637C2C63588E /windows/system ntfs noatime,user,exec 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda7 :
UUID=C4B86CB0B86CA2A2 /windows/documents ntfs noatime,user,exec 0 0

As a super user I did a

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chown -R kyle:kyle /windows
and I can successfully access the files and folders.

But I cannot write to the ntfs partitions, either as a regular user or as root.

I tried (as a super user) executing

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chmod -R 777 /windows
but I get an "Operation not supported" error for every folder and file.

Anybody have any pointers?

Thanks,
Kyle

[jaydot]

i've split you off from the thread you joined, kyle, for two reasons.  first, that member's issue is solved and will not attract much further in the way of attention, meaning your post will get missed.  second, even though you might think your problem is the same, or similar, it is always best to start your own thread to avoid confusing the two issues.

[Bald Brick]

kyle,

Check in Synaptic that ntfs-3g is installed. Then change ntfs in both the relevant lines in /etc/fstab to ntfs-3g.

This may be enough.

(Although I must add that chown doesn't really work on Windows partitions. If you want user and group to be "kyle" for all the files and directories on your Windows partition, add ",uid=kyle,gid=kyle" to the options field in the lines in /etc/fstab, i.e. after "noatime,user,exec".)

[kyle5434]

Thanks blackbird. Changing from ntfs to ntfs-3g in fstab did the trick.

[Bald Brick]