[ubuntu-in] Problem with permissions on Hard Disk Media

[Satish Chandra]

On 5/1/07, Amit K Saha <dandolls at yahoo.co.in> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a ATA hard-drive with a NTFS partition and a FAT32 partition. At
> boot time, Ubuntu mounts the FAT32 partition with R-W permission ,
> however the NTFS partition is mounted as R only. I have tried to change
> it using "chmod" as well as change the ownership using "chown" (ofcourse
> prefixing it with a "sudo") . This does not seem to work.
>
> Similar problem happens with a SATA hard-drive with NTFS partitions.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

You can write to NTFS partitions with ntfs-3g. It is in repos for
Feisty. For Dapper and below, you'll have to use 3rd party repos.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions

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Regards,
Satish