<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Thanks again, I now have access to the fat32 partition, I'll try for the ntfs partition tonight, but that one isn't all that important.<br><br>Carson<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu><br>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com><br>Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 2:29:43 PM<br>Subject: Re: mounting htfs file system<br><br><div>Carson Wilcox wrote:<br>> I have a usb drive that is formatted as ntfs. When I mount it, it mounts as read only.<br>> What do I need to do to make this file system writable??<br>> <br>> 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.<br>> <br>> The entry in my fstab is:<br>> /dev/sda1 /media/usd1 ntfs noauto,user 0 0<br><br>When you parititon it, you'll have two partitions /dev/sda1 and<br>/dev/sda2, I think. Then, one can mounted ntfs and the other fat32.<br>See <a target="_blank" href="http://tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html">http://tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html</a><br><br>Matthew Flaschen<br><br></div><div>-- <br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br>ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com<br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a target="_blank" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a><br></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>