Eben King wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Sep 2003, Maurice Wilson wrote:
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>>I have a second small drive that I keep stuff backed to that was
>>formatted and set up with windows but has worked well with Mandrake.
>>My problem is when Debian boots up it mounts as" Hard Disk Partition (hdc1)"
>>there is an icon on the desk top and I can access the drive and xfer
>>data to the Debian drive BUT I can't write to the drive or create a
>>folder on the drive.
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>Look in /etc/fstab for lines beginning with /dev/hdc1 . See if 'ro' is in
>the fourth column. If so, change it to 'rw' (if the filesystem is not
>NTFS); if not, add 'rw' (ditto). If the filesystem is NTFS, it's
>dangerous to mount it rw. In that case, you're better off sharing data
>through a FAT32 partition that both OSes can read from and write to.
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Thanks Eben
The Debian drive is an ata 100 20gb drive and I set it up as ext3,
however the small backup drive is
only about 550mb so it is probably only fat 16. I can't remember but I
don't think a drive that size can be a fat32
I was using it with windows and when I switched to Mandrake it just
worked and I gave it no thought. Guess I need to get another drive.
Strange that it has worked all this time with mandrake.
the line in fstab reads "/dev/hdc1/mnt/hdc1 ufat
noauto.users.exe,unmask=000,u10=knoppix.g10=knoppix 00"
I had to use the lattest Knoppix to do the install as the woody install
disk did not pick up all my hardware. I'm somewhat a newbee when it
comes to Linux. Thanks again. Maury
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