[LUGSB] Need help with drive permissions ...?

[Vinay Pai]

As far as I know, Linux still has very limited write support for NTFS... 
you can only overwrite existing files and modify them in ways that don't 
change the length.

If you want to write from Linux to a partition that is readable from XP, 
you'll need to format it as FAT32. You'll lose a lot of features on that 
partition under XP, though

Vinay




On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 carlos at corepcn.com wrote:

>       Hi guys, this is my first message to the LUGSB-
> 
> I'm using Fedora Core 3.  I've been using Linux for a while, but I'm still a little green.
> I have 2 hard drives on my system - 1 exclusively for FC, another for XP.
> The XP drive is divided into 2 partitions: 1. system and 2. storage (for documents and media).
> I want to be able to access this storage partition (at bootup) with full permissions as a user.  I have no problem
> editing fstab or using chmod and chown, but I keep running into read-only problems if I use the drive as root.  Can I
> give a user full read-write-execute permissions (or ownership) to a drive that is mounted at startup?  Why can't I set
> recursive permissions on the subdirectories to a user?
> 
> Hope that's not too much.  Hope to join you at a meeting soon!
> 
> -Carlos
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