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From: Jan de Weerd on 27 Nov 2009 12:05
On 11/23/2009 11:52 PM, Jan de Weerd wrote:
> On 11/22/2009 06:30 PM, paul_0090 wrote:
>> On 2009-11-22, jan <de.weerd(a)hccnet.nl> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I installed win 7 and opensuse 11.2 dvd both 64 bit version as dualboot.
>>> I can't write to the win partitions from opensuse. Tried the live_kde
>>> version and that worked, but when i installed that it didn't work either.
>>> Any suggestions?
>>>
>>> Jan
>>
>> Unless you change permissions somewhere, you need to be in su mode.
>>
>> I installed win7 several days ago & am able to write to the win 7
>> partitions (11.2 & win7 = 64 bit); did that after exporting my
>> firefox bookmarks.html then went su to write the file to a win7
>> partition. Also had copied some mail from 11.2 to win7; access of
>> the win partitions shouldn't be any different
>>
>> In the /etc/fstab, the windows partitions were set to auto mounted
>> during the 11.2 insta & I had set the various win7 partions to mirror
>> my win7 "drives"; think that the fstab can be modified to allow a user
>> to write to win7.
>>
>> Oh, I have the win7 home premium 64-bit........and still reinstalling
>> all the apps then reinstalling the "service packs" for the different
>> apps. More pain than doing linux as linux don't rely on a "registery".
>
> Thanks Paul,
> I already tried to change permissions before but obviously did something
> wrong. Now i investigated the possibility to change /etc/fstab and found
> a solution. I changed for some windows partitions the dmask from 022 to
> 002. After reboot i can now write to the windows partitions without
> being root.
> Cheers.
> Jan
To get write access to the files the fmask must be changed from 133 to 113
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