[SOLVED] Unable to write to NTFS partition

[antonysunny]

In one of our client system there is a partition which shows NTFS and other partitions are ext3...the partition which shows NTFS is a seperate HDD...The NTFS partition has been mounted...but we are not able to write anything to it...but we checked in /etc/fstab....it shows 'ro' so we changed to defaults....after making chnages when we tried to remount using the command
mount -o remount /partition...it shows the device is already been in use try using the command fuser or lsof..
we tried fuser /partition and then we killed that process..still same error...
..I would also like to know is there a way that we convert the NTFS partition to ext3 without losing the datas...Thanks

[yancek]

Which Linux operating system are you using?
Do you have ntfs-3g installed, this would be needed to write to an ntfs partition.
You might post the entry from /etc/fstab for the ntfs partition. I'm not that knowledgeable about filesystems but I am sure someone else here would be able to help.

[antonysunny]

I got fixed by editing the fstab file to defaults for that partition and restarted..itw orked..Thank s