writing on other partitions

[Guest]

Hello (my first post ),

I have other partitions on my hard drive, that I reformatted in ext3 format, but I still can't write on them.

However, I can write on NTFS partitions (after I installed the NTFS tool).

What can I do about it?

Also, I can't erase certain folders, even from the console:
merlin@merlinsfoot:/media/VisionTree$ sudo rm -r Windows
[sudo] password for merlin:
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/PrintHood': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/AppData/Local/Application Data': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/AppData/Local/History': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/AppData/Local/Temporary Internet Files': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Application Data': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Cookies': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Documents/My Music': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Documents/My Pictures': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Documents/My Videos': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Local Settings': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/My Documents': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/NetHood': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Recent': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/SendTo': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Start Menu': Operation not supported
rm: cannot remove directory `Windows/System32/config/systemprofile/Templates': Operation not supported

Thanks,
M.

[Rog131]

Re: writing on other partitions

Welcome


About permissions

> Linux permissions help
> Chmod help


About fstab

> How to fstab


Few questions

I have other partitions on my hard drive, that I reformatted in ext3 format, but I still can't write on them.

How did you mount them ?
Where did you mount them ?
What is the error messge ?


Examples

I have an ext3 partition (sda6) and it is in the /etc/fstab:

...
# /media/sda6 was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=f0340ccc-f2cd-4a31-b40b-364721fa5ab3 /media/sda6 ext3 relatime 0 2
...

So this partition is automounted to the /media/sda6. The directory has:

ls -l /media

drwxrwxrwx 66 root root 4096 2009-08-26 16:20 sda6

That is: everyone has read, write and execute access.


Changing rights:

sudo chmod 755 /media/sda6

after this:

drwxr-xr-x 66 root root 4096 2009-08-26 16:20 sda6

That is: everyone has read & execute access but only the owner has the write access.

Changing back:

sudo chmod 777 /media/sda6

after this:

drwxrwxrwx 66 root root 4096 2009-08-26 16:20 sda6

[Guest]

Re: writing on other partitions

The permissions did it. Thank you very much. I've read a bit about fstab also, and it seems clearer now.

Now, would you have a solution for the deleting problem? As those partitions are NTFS, I should format them in ext3 I guess. I would be simpler.

M.