I have a read-only access to Vista’s partition. Is it possible to get read-write access to it?
umount this partition and then use ntfs-3g to mount it
I have a read-only access to Vista’s partition. Is it possible to get read-write access to it?
Your /etcfstab file probably needs editing to give you user rw permissions. Post your configuration if you need further help.
I will try that. But what will happen if there is another NTFS drive plugged in by USB? Will it be automatically detected and given RW permissions?
This set up is not for me, but my father, and he should not need to mess around with configuration files. I will leave to another country tomorrow, so everything should ‘just work’.
No. The issue is fixed differently for USB-ntfs.
If you want to write to the USB drive when it automounts, you have to adjust the automount for external NTFS drives to cause them to be automounted as read-write when you attach them to the usb plug. You can do that by entering this command into your console/terminal:
sudo ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs
That command puts a redirection link into the system whereby system calls to mount.ntfs (which gives read-only mounts) are redirected to mount.ntfs-3g (which gives read-write mounts).
Okay, I just looked that up, and found out that I am clueless on what to do, so I better ask. Usually when I try to fix something myself, then I will break the system a couple of times. It is fine when I am experimenting on my system, but I am not. So, the particual line says:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1237G_57MFT9J2T-part2 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=et_EE.UTF-8 0 0
You need to adjust the fmask and dmask values like this:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_TOSHIBA_MK1237G_57MFT9J2T-part2 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=113,dmask=002,locale=et_EE.UTF-8 0 0
You can do this by editing fstab directly, or alternatively, launch the yast > system > partitioner and edit the settings (fstab options) for the relevant ntfs partition.
Thank you, this works!