Copying my stuff from NTFS to ext3

[Juukamen]

That ain't easy cause the ext3 patrition I've amde is read write protected. so how am i gonna use my 500 gb of space ?

here are my info on the disks

juukamen@Magdalena:~$ sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 91201 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 18255 146633256 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 18256 18505 2008125 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 18506 91201 583930620 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 750.1 GB, 750156374016 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 96901 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 3218 24328048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb2 3219 96900 708235920 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 3219 56192 400483408+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sdb6 56193 96900 307752448+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

I mainly want all of the NTFS over to ext3

[devils casper]

Can't you copy Data from NTFS partitions to ext3?
Ubuntu supports NTFS read access out of box and you can install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access.

[Juukamen]

I can copy stuff to the patritions and stuff like that-- But now as i've finally made the big step to move over to ubuntu then I sould completly get rid of windows and microsoft.

and the file browser won't show my 500gb patrition either,
/dev/sda3 18506 91201 583930620 83 Linux
it only show's the 3 NTFS patritions.

When i once had the sda3 patrition there it was read and write protected so I could do nothing.

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/fstab file.

less /etc/fstab

[Juukamen]

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sda1 :
UUID=bc0a833c-d0b5-4347-aaf4-0eee80f718ff / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
UUID=BA64545F64542085 /media/sdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=nb_NO.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb5 :
UUID=BE781E3C781DF43D /media/sdb5 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=nb_NO.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdb6 :
UUID=1E70AC8470AC646D /media/sdb6 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=nb_NO.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sda2 :
UUID=f75a0750-0d58-4f35-a18d-7efaef5e3f2a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Here it is...

[devils casper]

Execute this

sudo mkdir /media/sda3
gksu gedit /etc/fstab

Add this line at the end of /etc/fstab file

/dev/sda3   /media/sda3   ext3   defaults   0   0

Save file and execute 'sudo mount -a' command.

Open Nautilus with root privileges. Press Alt+F2 and type 'gksu nautilus'.
sda3 is mounted in /media/sda3 folder. Copy data from NTFS partitions to that.

[Juukamen]

as normal it's working