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ringfin

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Registered: 2009-10-30

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[SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

[root@ZEN ~]# chmod a=rwx /media/case
chmod: changing permissions of `/media/case': Read-only file system

what does it mean  "Read-only file system"?

/etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda7 / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda8 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 /media/case ntfs defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask=0022,rw  0 0 

system:
archlinux ,gnome3

Last edited by ringfin (2011-06-30 12:57:50)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

Read-only means you can't write to it ...

Are you using ntfs-3g?

toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: [SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

This appears to answer your question. Google can be ever so useful sometimes.

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hermes

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Registered: 2010-05-19

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Re: [SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

Install ntfs-3g and replace ntfs with ntfs-3g in your fstab.

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jocheem67

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Registered: 2009-11-09

Posts: 243

Re: [SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

Probably not cleanly unmounted somewhere. I guess you need a windowsbox...

ringfin

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Registered: 2009-10-30

Posts: 50

Re: [SOLVED]permissions denied unable to write windows(NTFS) partition

i changed the /etc/fstab
/dev/sda5 /media/case ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000,utf8,umask=0022,rw  0 0

and
chmod 666 /dev/null
mount -o remount,rw /

and reboot ,then it works.