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Monday, September 28, 2009

Re: Writing to NTFS WAS Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Need more swap

Yes, but the ease with which you can do it depends on the distro. Some
require that you make changes to fstab while others like Ubuntu have it done
by default. You just need to input your password and mount the drive and
thereafter have full privileges.

Roy

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2009/9/28 Don Cooley <dfcooley@gmail.com>

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> On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 11:31:51 -0000
> "dbneeley" <dbneeley@gmail.com <dbneeley%40gmail.com>> wrote:
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> >>snip>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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> > However, I have an entirely separate data partition formatted as NTFS
> > which is where I share many files I access from both Windows and
> > Linux. Thus, my drive has:
> >
> > * One partition for Windows
> > * One partition for shared data storage
> > * One partition for /home
> > * ONe partition for /
> > * Swap (in this case, 2 GB and the RAM on this system is 1.5 GB)
> > * One partition, currently unused, to play with other distros from
> > time to time
> >
>
> From Linux, are you able to write to the NTFS partition that you share
> with windows? Thanks.
>
> >>snip>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> >
> > David
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
> Don Cooley
>
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