Here's another option you may want to consider, How about a small FAT32 partition specifically for sharing files between your OSes? Good luck Micah On 12/21/05, Micah DesJardins wrote: > 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 is a closed standard owned by Microsoft and they do not publish how 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