i tried to change mounting the drives to /mnt/Windows and /mnt/Storage <br>and i get the same errors<br>but when i try to mount from the terminal it works with no problems<br>so it doesnt work from the fstab in the start up only
<br><br>here is my fstab now :<br><br><br>/dev/hda1 /mnt/Windows ntfs ro,defaults,iocharset=utf8,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users 0 0<br>/dev/hda5 /mnt/Storage vfat iocharset=utf8,codepage=862,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users 0
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/27/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">jim lawrence</b> <<a href="mailto:fedorajim@gmail.com">fedorajim@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 5/27/06, Me2resh Lists <<a href="mailto:me2resh.lists@gmail.com">me2resh.lists@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> hi<br>> i have a problem mounting ntfs and fat32 partitions<br>> i installed the ntfs add on for the version of kernel i have successfully
<br>> but when the system starts up i get the following error<br>><br>> -----------<br>> Mounting Other Filesystems mount: block device /dev/hda1 is write-protected,<br>> mounting read-only<br>> mount: cannot mount block device /dev/hda1 read-only
<br>> Mounting Other Filesystems mount: block device /dev/hda5 is write-protected,<br>> mounting read-only<br>> mount: cannot mount block device /dev/hda5 read-only<br>> -----------<br>><br>> hda1 : ntfs partition
<br>> and hda5 : fat32 partition<br>><br>> here is the contents of my fstab<br>><br>><br>> ####################<br>> LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1<br>> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
<br>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0<br>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0<br>> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
<br>> LABEL=SWAP-hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0<br>> /dev/hda1 /home/ahmed/Windows ntfs<br>> iocharset=utf8,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users<br>> 0 0
<br>> /dev/hda5 /home/ahmed/Storage vfat<br>> iocharset=utf8,codepage=862,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users<br>> 0<br>> ####################<br>><br>> can anyone help me with that plz
<br>> any help would be appreciated<br>> thanks in advance<br>><br>Seems your trying to mount them in your home folder.<br><br>try mkdir /media/windows<br><br><a href="http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#how_do_i_change_the_permissions_of_a_mounted_ntfs_volume">
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