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feel fairly stupid for asking on this one, but how do i copy to an external hdd. am logged in as root, yet it gives me "Permission Denied." if anyone ...
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    [noobish] Cant copy to external hdd

    feel fairly stupid for asking on this one, but how do i copy to an external hdd.

    am logged in as root, yet it gives me "Permission Denied."

    if anyone could share any light on it, it would be fantastic.

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    whats is the File System of external hdd? SuSe doesn't support NTFS write access out of box.






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    was thinking it was the file system, sigh.

    so, how would i be able to get the hdd to be able to have write access for windows and suse?

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    is it a no go?
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    SuSe and all Linux Distros has FAT32 read/write access. for NTFS write access, install ntfs-3g package. check this thread for instructions.






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    thanks a load, major help

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