How to write to a winxp partition file from the Linux partition?

[Joseph Sinclair]

You need to change the umask option in the mount command that is used to mount the NTFS partition.  NTFS uses a completely different access control mechanism from Linux, so Linux just completely ignores it and applies a umask to all files.  'man mount' to find the details of the required umask option.

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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