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dualboot opensuse 11.2 - win 7

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jan

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Nov 21, 2009, 9:43:05 PM11/21/09
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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

paul_0090

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Nov 22, 2009, 12:30:20 PM11/22/09
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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".

Neil Ellwood

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Nov 23, 2009, 8:12:47 AM11/23/09
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Get rid of windows and use the whole disc for suse - that works.

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Jan de Weerd

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:52:01 PM11/23/09
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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

Jan de Weerd

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Nov 23, 2009, 5:59:49 PM11/23/09
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On 11/23/2009 02:12 PM, Neil Ellwood wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:43:05 +0100, jan 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
>
> Get rid of windows and use the whole disc for suse - that works.
>
>
>
I will keep windows, but I have four disks. You are right if you have
one disk. I tried to install linux (several distro's) on a partition of
the drive where windows is installed, but that didn't work. So now I
have linux on the second disk and that works fine.

Jan de Weerd

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Nov 27, 2009, 12:05:00 PM11/27/09
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To get write access to the files the fmask must be changed from 133 to 113
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