Hello.
just recently moved from Ubuntu and i have to say i am impressed from this distro.
one problem i have is that i cant erase or change files that are located on a different hard drive.
the “move to trash” link is grayed out.
i think it’s a permission issue but since i moved from gnome everything is still new for me.
i will appreciate all the help you can assist me with.
thank you
the distro is OpenSuse 11 with kde 4.1
check your /etc/fstab file and make certain that they are being mounted rw
Here’s a decent explaination of fstab
Depending on where you’re mounting them, they may be owned by root, so be sure that the “other” file permissions are also rw. So if you mount the hard drive as, say, /data
chmod o+rw /data/
Thanks for the reply incognito.
alas, i can’t seem to fix the problem.
i have tried the shell command: chmod o+rw /windows/
in order to make all the mounted partitions under windows to rw.
i also edited the fstab file and added the rw command on one of the mounted partitions.
strangely enough, “move to trash” is working on the mother partition - windows/D - but not on the files that inside it: windows/D/example.avi.
i attach here the fstab for yo to see.
hope you can help.
thanks
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part2 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAP97230880-part1 **/windows/D ntfs-3g users,rw,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0**
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part5 /windows/E ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part9 /windows/F ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
My bad.
chmod -R o+rw /windows
This time I mean it. You can likely also fix it by removing the fmask=133 and dmask=022
Hello Incognito.
Although you meant it this time, i am still unable to make any changes to the partitions.
i have changed the mounting point from: “windows” and placed all the mount point for the hard disc under: “mnt”
here is again the fstab:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_IBM-DTLA-305020_YE0YE0C9195-part2 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part1 /mnt/windows_c ntfs-3g user,rw,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_WDC_WD1600AAJS-_WD-WCAP97230880-part1 /mnt/media ntfs-3g user,rw,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part5 /mnt/temp ntfs-3g user,rw,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340016A_3HS2Z4ZZ-part9 /mnt/documents ntfs-3g user,rw,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
hope you figure it out…
I’m going to need to mount an ntfs partition on my machine tonight and try to duplicate your issue. I can’t see any other problem.
OK, I’ve been thinking about this. There’s one more thing you can check… look in
/var/log/messages
for a message like “NTFS Error”. Sometimes if windows isn’t shut down properly, ntfs-3g will see the partition as corrupt, and mount it as read-only even though you specify write access.
If this is the problem, then I think the only way to fix it is to run chkdisk in windows. Not 100% sure about that, though.
nivosh wrote:
> Hello.
> just recently moved from Ubuntu and i have to say i am impressed from
> this distro.
>
> one problem i have is that i cant erase or change files that are
> located on a different hard drive.
>
> the “move to trash” link is grayed out.
>
> i think it’s a permission issue but since i moved from gnome everything
> is still new for me.
>
> i will appreciate all the help you can assist me with.
>
> thank you
>
> the distro is OpenSuse 11 with kde 4.1
>
>
This is not a Install/Boot/Login issue. In the future it might be better
suited for the Software forum.