Cannot read partitions

[Liam Proven]

On 02/10/2007, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On a recently converted windows machine, I had three NTFS partitions in /media:
> /media/hda1
> /media/hdb1
> /media/hdb5
>
> After installing Ubuntu, the user could read each of these partitions
> (but could not write to them). /media/hda1 was the old Windows root
> filesystem, with no files worth saving, so today I converted it into
> jfs with gparted.

Why jfs? That seems a /very/ strange choice. It's a journalling
filesystem type typically used with IBM OS/2. What's wrong with ext3
or even reiser?

It's normal for Linux not to be able to write to NTFS. NTFS is a
closed, proprietary FS; MS does not release the info for others to
implement it, so FOSS NTFS drivers are reverse-engineered. There are
solutions to enable write access - captive and ntfs3g - but it's
preferable to backup the data & reformat if they're to be used with
Linux, or if you want the ability to share data with Windows, Mac OS X
or other OSs, use FAT32 and put up with no proper permissions, a 4GB
max file size and so on.

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