Re: Windoze 2k Partitions

From: Dietmar (d_at_ufie.org)
Date: 08/12/03 

Date: 12 Aug 2003 14:11:30 -0700

Andreas Janssen <andreas.janssen@bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<bh7pdi$aq$04$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Tooms (<thumy@hawaii.rr.com>) wrote:
>
> > I have just installed Mandrake 9.1 in "high" security mode. This is
> > important because I didn't have the problem that I am having now when
> > I had previously installed in "normal" security mode.
>
> As far as I know there is a way to change the security mode after
> installation (somewhere in the control center)
>
> > As a regular user, I can't access the Win2k partitions on my dual boot
> > machine. I have no problem accessing them as root. I have tried
> > changing the permissions (as root) to read access for "user", "group",
> > and "others". This is the message I get: "chmod: changing permissions
> > of `/mnt/win_e/': Read-only file system".
>
> To set the permissions when the partition is mounted, use the umask and
> gid parameter (see the mount man page, Mount options for fat and Mount
> options for nfs). Take a look at the parameters in your fstab.
>
> > I know that win 2k is mountable only as read-only. What I can't
> > figure out is why I can't change the permissions on it as I was able
> > to read data from it on a previous install without having to do
> > anything other than navigating to the directory I wanted.
>
> Did you change the filesystem from FAT to NTFS? NTFS write support is
> experimental and can cause data loss, so probably this is why your
> partition is mounted read-only.
>
> best regards
> Andreas Janssen

As far as I am aware of you can never change permissions of FAT, NTFS
etc. Because there is no native permissions in non-Linux/U'x systems.
You should check your mountpoints if they need more permissions. This
should be possible.
/D

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