mounting htfs file system

Carson Wilcox carson.wilcox at verizon.net
Fri Feb 16 19:43:25 UTC 2007


thanks, I'll take a look at that in a couple of minutes

----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:29:43 PM
Subject: Re: mounting htfs file system

Carson Wilcox wrote:
> I have a usb drive that is formatted as ntfs. When I mount it, it mounts as read only.
> What do I need to do to make this file system writable??
> 
> This is an actual hard drive not a memory stick and is 120 gigs. I'd like to use it for backups and I can't format it as ext3 because I also unfortunatly need to use it on windoze as well.
> 
> The entry in my fstab is:
> /dev/sda1       /media/usd1     ntfs    noauto,user     0       0

When you parititon it, you'll have two partitions /dev/sda1 and
/dev/sda2, I think.  Then, one can mounted ntfs and the other fat32.
See http://tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Matthew Flaschen


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