Re: How to write to a winxp partition file from the Linux pa…

joe wrote:
> On my dual boot system, while logged into Linux, I can cd /mnt/windows and
> view all the files on the windows partition, but they are all r-xr-xr-x and
> even as root, I cannot copy a file or write to a file or change file
> permissions on a file in the winxp partition. Why is that? Surely there must
> be some way to overcome this barrier. What's the secret?
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I had a similar experience a while back. A large number of photo files
had gotten lost on the WinXP side of my box (I think it was when I
upgraded to XP.) I found them by using in Linux the command locate
.jpg. Locate found them hiding on hda. I went to root and copied them
to my Pix folder under Linux, but I couldn't even view them until I
chowned them to user. But pulling them off the Win side of my box as
root was easy.

I then burned them onto cd's and recopied them back to WinXP in a place
where I _could_ find them. Just a silly instance of using Linux to solve
a WinXP problem.

Bob Eaton
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