Eugene Smiley on Fri, 16 May 2003 22:41:18 -0400


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RE: [PLUG] Question about dual booting install.


Dan wrote:
> one problem that I have run into is that my redhat refuses to
> mount my win2k/ntfs partition as read/write..even by hand I can
> only mount it read/only eventhough I specified at the cmd line  I
> wanted the partition mounted as  rw. have any clues?
> Dan

There is a reason for that. Linux can write to FAT partitions, but 
not NTFS partitions. Two different beasts, and FAT is the easier 
to beat. ;)

Eugene


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