Re: Excahnge data between NTFS and Linux partitions

[panda <panda@cs.ucsb.edu>]

Andrus Moor wrote:

> I have dual booting system:  XP with NTFS and Debian unstable with ext2 file
> systems.
> This is Acer Travelmate notebook. Network and internet connections are not
> available usually.
>
> 1. How to allow non-root user to read XP partition ?
>
> I added a line to /etc/fstab :
>
> /dev/hda1  /xp ntfs  users,uid=andrus,exec,rw,suid,umark=0777
>
> Unfortunately, only root can access to xp directory.
> User andrus does not have access to /xp directory. Why ?
>
> 2. How to write to NTFS partition from Linux ?
>
> The fstab line above mounts /xp as read only !
>
> 3. How to read and write ext2 partition from Windows XP ?
>
>
>  
Hi,

I don't know much about this but probably adding auto to the fstab 
entry would help to allow readers to read the /xp partition.

Write support for the ntfs filesystem has only recently been introduced 
in the 2.6 kernel.

About the third question I don't know.

Thanks
panda