[Wolves] Ubuntu Live and drive permissions

[Alex Willmer]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 00:05 +0000, Deusiah wrote:
> If I understand you correctly both drives contain XP file systems,
> presumably of type NTFS which means Ubuntu only has read support by
> default (see: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/ for more info about
> NTFS support).
> 
> I did happen to come across another method for NTFS support under
> Linux named Captive (see:
> http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/) which works by using
> Wine and original Windows ntfs.sys driver. This provides both read and
> write support though I'm not entirely sure of it's stability as I have
> never tried it, I cannot vouch for it.
> 

I've used captive in Knoppix, which provides a nice GUI wizard to
configure it. I've not had problems with the driver the few times I've
used it, it's a neat hack. Ultimately though I wouldn't use captive day
to day, I'd rather use VFAT partitions and wait for native ntfs to gain
read write.

If the drives aren't NTFS, then the problem is likely to be mounting
options. Modify the appropriate lines in /etc/fstab to include the
options 'uid=<default user>,user,rw' replacing <default user> with
whatever the default Ubuntu LiveCD user is. Then remount that harddrive
and you should have full read, write access

Alex