On 12/21/05, joe wrote: > On my dual boot system, while logged into Linux, I can cd /mnt/windows and > view all the files on the windows partition, but they are all r-xr-xr-x and > even as root, I cannot copy a file or write to a file or change file > permissions on a file in the winxp partition. Why is that? Surely there must > be some way to overcome this barrier. What's the secret? Simply put, it's a bit risky to read/write NTFS on Linux because NTFS is a closed standard owned by Microsoft and they do not publish how NTFS works. Reading the format is fine, because the worst that happens is something gets read a little garbled but nothing intrinsically 'bad' happens. There are projects (notably Captive and the linux-ntfs project) that do support writing but they are considered far from polished and if you do choose to enable read/write capability on your NTFS partitions under Linux I would advise you to keep full and frequent backups. Micah --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss