Writing to sda1

[Hodgins Family]

Hey Robert! Good afternoon.

On Mon, 2006-17-07 at 18:21 -0400, Robert Krueger wrote:
> Hello,
>    Using 6.06.
> I have another HD with WinXP on it, formatted as NTFS.
> It's listed on my desktop as "sda1"
> No matter what I try to do as root, I cannot change the permissions on 
> this windows HD and all the files it it.  Everything still is owned by 
> root and is Read Only.  I've done all the normal stuff, so why can't I 
> change this?

First, let us know what "normal stuff" you did.

As far as I know, you can't write to an NTFS partition with Dapper "out
of the box" without adding some extra packages (CaptiveNTFS comes to
mind.) It won't matter if you are root or not.

If all you want to do is to READ an NTFS partition, then do a "sudo
chmod 0777" on your mount point (/media/winxp, maybe?) That should let
everybody read off of the NTFS partition.