CHMOD Help please

[gregxcott]

Hey all

This is my first post ever on a linux forum, Yay! I always come here, You guys are great

I need some help,

I just setup my nice Debian machine, (AMD64) and I have a couple of HDD's from NTFS that I'd like to access, I can mount them, That's not a problem, It's just whenever I try and change any sort of permission, No matter who I am, It says I don't have permission

I just want to access my files and write to them from a normal user, But I can't even write to them from the root .

Any suggestions ??

[RobinVossen]

To write to NFTS you need a Special Package installed on your Linux box.
From what Ive heard its about 99% Stable now. The 1% that isnt is if you write a Unix Hidden (with a dot in front of the name) file to NTFS. It wont boot anymore..
But then again I only heard this, I cant confirm it with my own experiences..
What I normaly do with NTFS is I Copy the files to my /home and mod them then.

Cheers,
Robin

[gregxcott]

Thanks, That's good to know.

I'd copy the files over, It's just that I have over 500gig worth And my Linux HDD is only 80gig.

I've set them up in the /etc/fstab as -rw,user,exec but still, The Root can't change the file permission.

I'm curious about this package, Do You know what it's called?

[RobinVossen]

Not sure.
If cant find it Ill ask my friend about it.
But you might want to takea look at: How to write to NTFS in Linux-2.6

[gregxcott]

Well, Today I hate my life, I just failed my drivers test.. for the fourth time..
This is the third time I've gotten a pass mark, but failed for something small.. Ohwell, To the Glory; Linux

So, I figured that the problem is that even though /ETC/FSTAB has all my mounts set up the way I want them too be, It's my kernel, It has NTFS read support, but not write support. So now I need to recompile my kernel with some "make menuconfig".

I'm having some trouble here.

Can anyone help me with a step by step for 2.6.18-5-amd64.??

??

[g2g591]

don't worry about the driving ( I just failed for the 3rd time too) . no need to recompile your kernel, just use ntfs3g (can't remember how to activate it for you though) (thats probably the name of the package mentioned earlier) and configuring your kernel gets easier the more times you do it, (today I just configured a kernel (for the 2nd time) from memory and it worked right away)

[gregxcott]

Thanks, NTFS3g is working for me, After that, All I had to do was force mount and it worked.

Thank You everyone.