Changing permissions of a previously windows directory

[ColdZ]

I am using mandrake 10.1

I have a previously windows directory that i mounted on linux and can read very well....

ok till now!

but i cant delete or write to it.... i need the WRITE permission...

can anyone plz tell me how to do that.... cuz i cant simply format it to a linux format cuz i need the contents

all the best guys...

[budman7]

Writing to a NTFS still needs some work.
If you just want the files, and you can read them from Linux.
Make a folder on your Mandrake paartition and copy the files over, you can use Copy and paste to do this.
Then you can do whatever you want to the Windows partition.

[ColdZ]

Hi again,

the windows partition is not NTFS, and I also tried previously to copy-n-paste... but dont have much space on my linux drive to hold all data...

i need to b able to delete from the windows dir

tnx

[Cabhan]

Ah, it's FAT. Happiness, then.

Post your /etc/fstab file.

Basically, mounted stuff is different from regular stuff. Mounted things have to be told to be writable in order to write to them.

[ColdZ]

my fstab:


/dev/hda1 / ext3 noatime 1 1
/dev/hda7 /home ext3 noatime 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0022,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0066,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[ColdZ]

hi Cabhan...

I changed my fsttab.... and it worked...
I completely forgot about that file... am still new to linux i think.. .

But what's important is that it worked !!!!

tnx a lot