I need to move all my app data off a ubuntu drive to an external drive.

when i try the drag and drop it tells me i do not have permissions to write to this folder.

sudo chmod 777 WD\ Combo doesnt work on the drive it says

chmod: changing permiossions of wd combo : read only file system.

what am i doing wrong?

Matt

if its NTFS Formatted you may have to install Samba.

i moved the data from this disk to ubuntu fine about 6 weeks ago. just dont seem to be able to move it back.

Matt

if its an NTFS Formatted drive you will have read permissions with no problems.  However you maynot be able to write to an NTFS Volume without some extra software installed.

installed ntfs-config but still got exactly the same error.

some suggestions its down to it being ntfs and that i should format it as fat32 which is my next task.

Matt

Id be interested in the answer to this, as Im in the same position.  Theres GOT to be a way round it though, theres no reason why you should have to reformat to fat32 as thats just running away from the problem

The default NTFS driver in Ubuntu is incapable of writing to NTFS, only reading.

Install this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G

And you should be able to read/write NTFS partitions much more quickly too.

Quote from: Beakerif its NTFS Formatted you may have to install Samba.

Samba is for network shares, not for accessing local drives.

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/widows-ntfs-partitions-readwrite-support-made-easy-in-ubuntu-feisty.html

Simple, graphical prog with step-by-step guide

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Quote from: Beakerif its NTFS Formatted you may have to install Samba.

Samba is for network shares, not for accessing local drives.

IIRC its about the NTFS Support as well.  I have Suse, so i read and write NTFS volumes without having to install extra software  

Ubuntu has read/write for NTFS by default in the latest release (feisty). I know this because Im using it

have a look at Ubuntuguide, it has many useful things explained.

sorted this with something call fat32format.

thanks for the suggestions, few more ubuntu sites around, but i just cant get on with it anymore. back to XP for me

Matt

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Quote from: skidzilla

Quote from: Beakerif its NTFS Formatted you may have to install Samba.

Samba is for network shares, not for accessing local drives.

IIRC its about the NTFS Support as well.  I have Suse, so i read and write NTFS volumes without having to install extra software  

You are probably thinking of "NFS" not NTFS. Samba is support for "NetworkFileSystem" (think thats what NFS stands for) windows shares over a network. Nothing to do with NTFS support for local drives.

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Quote from: Beaker

Quote from: skidzilla

Quote from: Beakerif its NTFS Formatted you may have to install Samba.

Samba is for network shares, not for accessing local drives.

IIRC its about the NTFS Support as well.  I have Suse, so i read and write NTFS volumes without having to install extra software  

You are probably thinking of "NFS" not NTFS. Samba is support for "NetworkFileSystem" (think thats what NFS stands for) windows shares over a network. Nothing to do with NTFS support for local drives.

TBH ive forgotten masses of stuff.  Since moving over to Suse ive only ever had to fiddle with the GFX drivers.