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I have a dual boot laptop (LG Gram) which has two physical hard drives. I use one for Windows and one for Linux. I have a smallish partition on the Windows machine that I was hoping to use to share data between the two OSes.

Although in Mageia I can create directories and use it in a basic fashion, there's some really weird stuff going on.

1. Everything belongs to root and I cannot change anything to belong to my user.
2. If I copy a whole directory from the native Linux drive to it, it makes the directories but then tells me the directories already exists and I have to skip the write into even though it copies the files that are then owned by root.
3. Despite the fact that these files are owned by route, I can still write to them as user
4. I can't checkout anything from svn into the shared drive, tells me I can't create a pristine stream, whereas if I checkout to a Linux native drive it works fine.

So, here's the question:

How can I set this up so both Linux and Windows can access this and shared partition and live in harmony together please? Thanks!

Hi there,

some details would be required what filesystem that small partition uses, how it's mounted currently under Mageia and the permissions on the mountpoint.

Apart from that I can tell you that this works fine without issues, I've got one drive formatted as NTFS and can write to that as regular user and access it on Mageia and Windows without issues.

Hi Doktor,

Thanks for that, you prompting me to look at permissions in diskdrake made me see that the flag to disallow permissions ot be changed on the partition was set. Clearing that seems to have it working now. Thanks again!

If you are happy with the fix, would you please mark the topic as [SOLVED]

Germ wrote:If you are happy with the fix, would you please mark the topic as [SOLVED]

Hmmm, I did. What gives?

Edit: I did the wrong post. Doh.

LOL