Access To Windows Partition Denied

I got a Dell desktop with windows XP on it and I installed Suse 10.3 an it. Now I can copy from the windows partitions but I can not copy anything to it. Can some body help me. Thomas

I got a Dell desktop with windows XP on it and I installed Suse 10.3 an it. Now I can copy from the windows partitions but I can not copy anything to it. Can some body help me. Thomas [/b]

hi
i hope this helps.
generally opensuse support reading(copy) from NTFS partition in windows but does'nt support writing (move ,del,..) to them .(because it not opensource )
so i supose your drive are in ntfs format.(suse can read and write to FAT32 just fine )

but you can use ntfs-3g program (www.ntfs-3g.org) to do both reading and writing from and to NTFS.

i am no expert with this program and its still a progresive program and every while it releases a new version with bug fixs.
but i think for a simple copy or deletin, it's fine.
you just install then from source or from this repository http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/...s/openSUSE_10.3 and then mount your windows drive with this program.

from its site
"
Usage
If there was no error during installation then the NTFS volume can be mounted in read-write mode for everybody as follows. Unmount the volume if it had already been mounted, replace /dev/sda1 and /mnt/windows, if needed.

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows
Please see the ntfs-3g manual page for more options and examples. You can also make NTFS to be mounted during boot by adding the following line to the end of the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
"
you should replace sda1 with your drive label

you can seach this forum and google for more information.

next time please search forum first

In addition to rd1381's good advice, I add only two things:

1: You don't need to specially/separately download the Suse RPM. It should be installed as one of the default programmes during the setup of Suse. If it's not there then it available for installation via your normal repositories set up during the installation process for Suse. Just goto Yast --> Software Management and use that to install ntfs-3g. You can test whether it;s installed yet by opening a console and entering this command:

rpm -qa ntfs*

That should return ntfs-3g and ntfsprogs if it's installed already.

2: You might also be interested in the one-click GUI program, ntfs-config, which allows you to skip editing a line into the fstab file. But if you choose to mount the drive for read/write access as suggested by rd1381, leave a blank line as the last line in fstab, Suse likes it that way.

FFI on ntfs-3g: Mount your NTFS Filesystem/Partition for Read/Write Access in openSUSE 10.0 through 10.3

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