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Using Debian Lenny I have a NTFS filesystem on which I have xp installed. I mounted it on /mnt/xp I can cd into it, but I can't mkdir or save ...
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  1. 02-12-2010 #1
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    [SOLVED] can't mkdir or save inside directory

    Using Debian Lenny
    I have a NTFS filesystem on which I have xp installed.
    I mounted it on /mnt/xp
    I can cd into it, but I can't mkdir or save anything in this dir or farther
    down the filesystem. I tried doing this as root and these are the
    ownership and permissions:
    Debian:/mnt# ls -ld /mnt/xp
    drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2010-02-07 18:19 /mnt/xp
    Debian:/mnt# ls -ld /mnt/xp/Documents\ and\ Settings/
    drwx------ 1 root root 4096 2010-02-03 20:23 /mnt/xp/Documents and Settings/
  2. 02-12-2010 #2
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    Debian doesn't support NTFS write access out of box.
    Have you installed ntfs-3g package? Mount NTFS partitions using ntfs-3g to enable write access.

    Code:
    su -
apt-get install ntfs-3g
    Mount partition ( or edit /etc/fstab )
    Code:
    su -
mount -t ntfs-3g  /dev/<partition>  /mnt/xp -o defaults,umask=0
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  3. 02-12-2010 #3
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    Thanks for the help.
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