change permissions in NTFS volumes

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I’m trying to make my NTFS volumes writable by the chmod command.

Code:

sudo chmod -R 777 /media/songs

But this doesn’t seem to work. The owner is root, but isn’t the above
command supposed to work? Please help.

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IIRC you should set write permissions in your fstab, and not by directly
chmodding them. Anyway, I may be wrong - the thing to make sure is, you
have to have the ntfs-3g driver, the plain-vanilla ntfs driver is for
read-only access.

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Expanding on the good advice of JosipBroz, reading material:
‘HowTo Mount NTFS Filesystem Partition Read Write Access in openSUSE
10, 11’ (http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtontfs.html)

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