NTFS partition doesn't accept chmod 777

[randomAccess]

Distro is Ubuntu. When i do
sudo chmod 777 /media/partition_name
I get a message "Cannot chmod. This partition is read-only."

How do I change this so I could write on it too? Which console command to use?

[serz]

You can chmod a NTFS/FAT32 filesystem, they just don't accept UNIX-like permissions.

Hmm..I'm not aware if NTFS read-write is still safe.. I'd suggest you to look at Google or Google for Linux and look for some tutorial/guide.

[Nerderello]

what you are after is the option in the mount command to set the permissions. This is the umask=nnnn option. The nnnn are numbers that are the same as the usual file permisions (ie. the chmod command) , but the opposite of them.

So, to mount a filesystem that lives on a device called /dev/hda1 onto a pre-prepared mount point (folder) called /mnt/windoze , and give everybody read/write/execute (what in the chmod command would be a 777) I would do (as root user) :-

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windoze -o umask=0000

Of course, to make this a permenant thing, I'd have to modify my /etc/fstab file as well.

have fun

Nerderello