Adding an entry to /etc/fstab for the drive should be enough for root-only access. You'd have to mount it at the command-line though. <div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 18, 2012 8:15 AM, "Lee Gold" <<a href="mailto:leegold@operamail.com">leegold@operamail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Hi, I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows XP. The Windows NTFS partition shows pn the Xubuntu desktop and seems to be freely read/write accessible without a password. Usually this is great, but in this PC's particular case I want to limit access to it from Xubuntu. At the minimum if there's a way to have write access to it only with root password that would be enough. How would I do this? Using Xubuntu 11.10. Thanks -- <a href="http://www.fastmail.fm" target="_blank">http://www.fastmail.fm</a> - Does exactly what it says on the tin -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div>