Making Windows partitions user w/r

[Robert Brockway]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Lance F. Squire wrote:

> Whats the best way to make Windows partitions user writable in Ubuntu?

Hi Lance. This is actually a function of the filesystem type and its mount 
options.

VFAT will mount as read-write by default, NTFS will mount as read-only in 
general. This is because until recently NTFS read-write support was buggy.

If you have a recent enough kernel and recent enough supporting tools you 
will be able to get read-write mounted NTFS.  To make the filesystem mount 
read-write when it is defaulting to read-only use something like this:

mount -o rw /dev/hda1 /win

If you find when doing this that it still refuses to mount read-write then 
the version of the kernel & tools are too old to support safe read-write 
access.  If you just need access in order to change something recent 
Knoppix cdroms support read-write NTFS access.

You may wish to look in /etc/fstab to look at the mount options set there 
too.

Rob

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