Hi Knoppix users,

I am new to this forum and though I tried to get an answer for my question by reading the existing threads. This was not very successful since the hints did not work for me.

I want to use an external harddisk connected to the laptop through an USB inteface. The disk was mounted correctly at startup and was readable. The existing file system on this disk is NTFS. Any attempt to write to this disk failed with the error message: file system is read only.

First of all I am using version Knoppix 3.2 from CD. May this be the promblem? Should I use a newer version?

The following things I have tried without success:

- Changing the access right by clicking on the desktop icon and enabling writing. All changes had been accepted but the result was still the same.

- Unmounting the device and changing the option 'ro' in the file fstab to 'rw' and mounting the drive again. Afterwards the disk could be read again but not be written.

Thanks for any help

Pollux