files in this group are read only, can’t be editted. I can’t create new files here either.
sudo chmod u+w emacsv.txt
it will ask for pwd, but then the attributes do not change at all.
Windows does not recognise permissions; so either your Windows partition will be set to allow editing by root only or not at all. How you can solve/work round this situation depends on whether it is FAT32 or NTFS.
You need to give more information about the format of your Windows partition to get a succinct answer.
i have the same problem and the winodoz partition is in ntfs
This is what I do…
Run Terminal
type in:
- su
give it the root password - exec nautilus
Then it should open up the file browser with root priv letting you edit anything you want in the windows partition…
By default, I don’t think ntfs partitions are mounted read-write. Therefore, you aren’t going to get write access, no matter who you are, until they are mounted with writing enabled.
Take a look here: HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE 10, 11 and give it a try.
the above url should help you, helped me a lot, although I made some minor changes and mount this way (fstab entry)
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD3200KS-00_WD-WCAPD2147689-part1 /windows/C
ntfs-3g uid=akm,gid=users,umask=0027,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
which gives me rwx and the group users rx and the rest of the world nada