writing to windoze partition

[Thomas Springer]

Hello


On Sun, 7 Aug 2005 05:41:13 -0700 (PDT)
Globe Trotter wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have the ntfs kernel installed and the following line in my /etc/
> fstab. 
> 
> /dev/hda1       /media/windows  ntfs    rw,defaults,umask=0222  0 0
>
Why did you apply this umask?
 
> The windoze partition mounts okay and I can change directories, etc.
> 
> cd /media/windows/Documents and Settings/globe/Desktop
> 
> However, I am unable to copy files to it on linux (FC4). What do I
> have to do to be able to do this?
>
I think it's because you have to change umask to sth like 022
 
> Many thanks and best wishes!
Maybe this can help you, though i never used the ntfs-module


Thomas