Linux problem-Please help

[black_v]

Hi!
I'm using Suse Prof. 9.3.The problem I'm facing is with my win partition .
It's mounted read-only even when i'm loged in as root.
I am looking for a shell command to give me write permission on it(as root of course).
I've tried under KDE but can't find a tool with GUI that can do this.Not even when I'm loged in as root.
Thanks!

[Raiden]

Is it ntfs on your windows partition ? If so, does your kernel have ntfs-write enabled ?
if its not enabled you can only mount it read-only, and even if it is, mounting ntfs read-write still can be a pain, but if its enabled you can add following line to your /etc/fstab :

/dev/hdax        /mnt/mountpoint     ntfs        rw,fmask=777         1   0

If its a fat32 partition you prolly will have more luck, try adding this :

/dev/hdax        /mnt/mountpoint     vfat        rw,fmask=777         1   0

where of course /dev/hdax should be the partition where your win is on, and /mnt/mountpoint the dir where you mount it in. If you added one of these lines, you can go and mount it.

Mount everything in /etc/fstab

#mount -a

See whats currently mounted and where

#mount

Hope this helps,

[black_v]

It's NTFS.I'll still have to check about the ntfs write enabled option beacuase I'm not sure.
Thanks!

[Raiden]

try this :

raiden@S05013:~$ cat /usr/src/linux/.config | grep NTFS
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=y
CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y

where /usr/src/linux is your kernel-directory. Post your output.
Besides the fmask=777 will make everything on your win-partition read-write, for everyone.
if you have a problem with that i suggest you use fmask=020 or something alike.

[gore]

You need to install the NTFS tools from the DVDs or CDs.

[black_v]

It's working!
Thanks guys!