Re: linux + windows problem

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 15:26, mbrown wrote:
> I'll bet your windows partition is NTFS and I don't think you can write to 
> that from Linux.  If you need space that both OS's can access you should 
> create a fat32 partition.
> 
You can write to NTFS from Linux, you just need to compile NTFS write
support into the kernel. You can also read and write their new FS format
used by 2k and XP.

> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2004, albert rajan george wrote:
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> > Hi ppl, 
>  
> I have installed SuSE 9.0 as reiserfs format and Windows XP as ntfs on 
> the same hard-disk. The problem is that while working on Linux I am 
> able to access as well as read the windows partition, but not write to 
> it. 
> Right-clicking on one of the windows icons (like C,D,E) shows that the 
> partition is writable into (under the permissions tab) but its not so. 
> But when i see the permissions of the windows partitiion  using la 
> command it shows only readable. 
> I am not able to change the access permissions using the chmod command 
> also. 
> Even during the installation I did writable. 
> Plz help me out. 
>  
> Thanks, 
> Albert 
>  
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