Mounting with Write Access

**ljwestfall3** · 02-12-2009, 02:51 PM

Hello everyone. In Knoppix 5.1, I had no trouble mounting flash drives and NTFS partitions with write access. Now when i try to do it under Knoppix 6, it says "Read-only file system" whenever I try to create a directory. It seemed to have did it automatically under 5.1.

Something else I notice is when I install knoppix to a flash drive, and reboot, I have to recreate the mount points (/media/sda1 for example)

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks - Jason

**hal8000** · 02-13-2009, 10:20 PM

Knoppix 6 desktop does not use KDE it uses LXDE a different desktop with different properties.
you will therefore need to write a bash script to modify your mount points, or install a different desktop

**Harry Kuhman** · 02-14-2009, 01:00 AM

I would just try the mount command from a shell. Open a shell and type man mount for details. It's been a long time since I was new to Knoppix and did it this way, but I was able to change the permission (of a FAT partition) this way when pretty new to Linux with no problem. However, if you are trying to write to NTFS please ignore this post, I want to have no part in anyone trying to write to NTFS with Knoppix.

**bluejack** · 02-24-2009, 08:34 PM

Hello, I had recently the same issue,
but I've right now found a solution:
I'm running knoppix usualy withnout GUI, so I do type

Code:

knoppix 2

at the isolinux boot screen.
When I've used mount

Code:

/dev/ntfs_partition /tmp/some_dir

It was completed succesfuly, but without write permisions.
So, I've tried ntfsmount

Code:

/dev/ntfs_partition /tmp/some_dir

and it returned error that "fuse" module is not loaded,
after entering

Code:

modprobe fuse

the command

Code:

ntfsmount /dev/ntfs_partition /tmp/some_dir

completed succesfully with write privileges.
I hope this will be useful for others too

BlueJack

Originally Posted by ljwestfall3

Hello everyone. In Knoppix 5.1, I had no trouble mounting flash drives and NTFS partitions with write access. Now when i try to do it under Knoppix 6, it says "Read-only file system" whenever I try to create a directory. It seemed to have did it automatically under 5.1.

Something else I notice is when I install knoppix to a flash drive, and reboot, I have to recreate the mount points (/media/sda1 for example)

Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks - Jason