Fedora Users — Re: FC5 : mounting ntfs and fat32 partitions problem

i spend all the day googling for a solution for that problem but nothing so far,
can anyone help me please

On 5/27/06, Me2resh Lists < me2resh.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

i tried to change mounting the drives to /mnt/Windows and /mnt/Storage
and i get the same errors
but when i try to mount from the terminal it works with no problems
so it doesnt work from the fstab in the start up only

here is my fstab now :

/dev/hda1        /mnt/Windows    ntfs    ro,defaults,iocharset=utf8,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users    0 0
/dev/hda5        /mnt/Storage    vfat    iocharset=utf8,codepage=862,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users    0

On 5/27/06, jim lawrence < fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 5/27/06, Me2resh Lists <me2resh.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> hi
> i have a problem mounting ntfs and fat32 partitions
> i installed the ntfs add on for the version of kernel i have successfully
> but when the system starts up i get the following error
>
> -----------
> Mounting Other Filesystems mount: block device /dev/hda1 is write-protected,
> mounting read-only
> mount: cannot mount block device /dev/hda1 read-only
> Mounting Other Filesystems mount: block device /dev/hda5 is write-protected,
> mounting read-only
>  mount: cannot mount block device /dev/hda5 read-only
> -----------
>
> hda1 : ntfs partition
> and hda5 : fat32 partition
>
> here is the contents of my fstab
>
>
> ####################
> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hda7         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda1        /home/ahmed/Windows    ntfs
> iocharset=utf8,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users
>    0 0
> /dev/hda5        /home/ahmed/Storage    vfat
> iocharset=utf8,codepage=862,umask=0222,dmask=0000,uid=0002,gid=users,users
>    0
> ####################
>
> can anyone help me with that plz
> any help would be appreciated
> thanks in advance
>
Seems your trying to mount them in your home folder.

try mkdir  /media/windows

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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