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[lightsycle]

recently installed openSUSE on NTFS sda2. had to resize part, XP now tells me ntldr missing. I can mount hda1, hda2, hdb1 all NTFS, and have rw perm. when mounting sda1 (XP) it mounts as ro. I have it mounted in fstab, no umask optition tho, need to access sda1 to fix windows. I really don't want to reinstall, but I have been beating my head aginst the wall to fix it.

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

SuSe doesn't support NTFS write access out of box. did you install ntfs-3g package to enable NTFS write access?

[lightsycle]

apparently it does because I can write to my other two ntfs drives, or at leaset I thin I can. I have to option, if I right click on files, to move to trach and such. It is just the one with the windows system files and all on it that I can't write to. No I haven't installed gf3

[adz_c]

Did you actually try to delete any files?

I found with the "out of the box" ntfs support on SUSE 10.2 I could only read and execute on my ntfs partitions.

thanks to devils casper on a previous thread I installed ntfs-3g, latest fuse and edited fstab to mount my external drive /dev/sda1 as rw.

I found that ntfs-en [wiki.linux-ntfs.org] is really helpful and you can get ntfs-3g support here: NTFS-3G: Stable Read/Write NTFS Driver

[lightsycle]

No I can't actually delete anything. I have to option to, but it tells me access denied when I try to delete. With the other drive I don't even have the option to delete, and I can't change any permissions or ownerships on it either. I try, and it appears to be changing them, but it doesn't...I will install ntfs-g3 and see where that gets me. and fuse too