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On Tuesday 17 Jan 2006 12:21, Kelly Jones wrote: > A friend is having problems mounting his Windows partition in suse 10, > we have created a mount point and given the mount point 777 permissions > but when we mount the ntfs partition the permissions change back to read > only for the owner (root) > Is this an ntfs specific problem or something else? You need to specify permissions and/or a user ID in the mount command (or in fstab if you're mounting through there). E.g. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt -t ntfs -o user,uid=username The 'user' option specifies that normal users can mount and unmount the filesystem (which I suspect will be useful in this case) and 'uid' specifies the username which will own all the files within the filesystem (and so can read/write to them). If you need more than one user to be able to access the filesystem, then instead of the 'uid' option you can use 'gid=users' to allow every user in the users group to access it, or 'umask=0777' to allow all users full permissions. See the 'man mount' for more general and NTFS-specific options. > Is it still not advisable to write to an ntfs volume? As far as I'm aware it is now considered reasonably safe. There used to be a warning in the kernel config strongly discouraging use of it, but that was taken out a while ago. That said, you may want to back-up before attempting it for the first time in case there's some bug in the kernel (SUSE patch it a lot and so could have added something which breaks NTFS write support). Regards, David. -- David Johnson www.david-web.co.uk - My Personal Website www.ethereye.org.uk - EtherEye Network Host Checker www.penguincomputing.co.uk - Need a Web Developer? -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html