windows drives in linux...

[csr]

how to delete or modify the files in windows drives in mandriva linux.... how to change the permissions of that drives....please help.... thanks in advance..

[devils casper]

How did you mount Windows Partitions in Mandriva?
Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.
Post the output of these commands too :

su -
fdisk -l
df -h

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[paprika27]

you're only asking how to change the permissions, so I assume you already know how to mount it and already did.

to change access permissions to everyone may do everything (the easiest form) just type

su
[put you root password in. it's normal that you don't see what you type]
cd /path/to/windoze
chmod 777 *

you can specify instead of just doing *, you can change rights recursively, change only certain rights for certain ppl...
all with chmod.
google is your friend.

hf

[devils casper]

you're only asking how to change the permissions, so I assume you already know how to mount it and already did.

to change access permissions to everyone may do everything (the easiest form) just type

su
[put you root password in. it's normal that you don't see what you type]
cd /path/to/windoze
chmod 777 *

you can specify instead of just doing *, you can change rights recursively, change only certain rights for certain ppl...
all with chmod.
google is your friend.

hf

Changing permissions using chmod command wont work because Windows OS doesn't sustain file permissions.
One must set umask value to zero in /etc/fstab file or use that option in mount command.

[csr]

[root@localhost etc]# cat fstab


# Entry for /dev/hda7 :
UUID=46c0351b-6a11-46fb-90f0-216ee4af7edd / ext3 relatime 1 1
# Entry for /dev/hda8 :
UUID=b0280653-2ef5-4f55-8cae-6fb77b4a4aaa /home ext3 relatime 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=FED039C1D03980C7 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=7CA4D9CFA4D98C50 /media/hd2 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda6 :
UUID=BCF8AD40F8ACF9B2 /media/hd3 ntfs-3g defaults 0 0


[root@localhost etc]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xe571e571

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 3824 30716248+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 3825 9729 47431912+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 3825 6374 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 6375 8286 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda7 8287 8676 3132643+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 8677 9729 8458191 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 1021 MB, 1021125120 bytes
32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 989 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 2016 * 512 = 1032192 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xc01c9572

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 989 996880+ b W95 FAT32



[root@localhost etc]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 3.0G 2.0G 815M 72% /
/dev/hda8 8.0G 188M 7.8G 3% /home
/dev/hda1 30G 6.8G 23G 23% /media/hd
/dev/hda5 20G 1.4G 19G 8% /media/hd2
/dev/hda6 15G 1.1G 14G 7% /media/hd3
/dev/hdc 4.3G 4.3G 0 100% /media/SONGS-VEDIOS
/dev/sda1 972M 5.0M 967M 1% /media/DATA
[root@localhost etc]#

[devils casper]

Open /etc/fstab file with root privileges and add umask=0 in these lines :

UUID=FED039C1D03980C7 /media/hd ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=7CA4D9CFA4D98C50 /media/hd2 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda6 :
UUID=BCF8AD40F8ACF9B2 /media/hd3 ntfs-3g defaults,umask=0 0 0

Save file and execute mount -a command or Reboot machine. You will have read/write access in all partitions.