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From: Barutan Seijin <barutan@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How to make gnus store received mail in the directory /mnt/windows?
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:04:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d5ogd38s.fsf@oedipa.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wtmo67r8.fsf@Jesper-Harders-Computer.local>

On 14 Aug 2005, Jesper Harder wrote:



> romeomedina@libero.it writes:
> 
> > Now, the problem is that the desired directory is /mnt/windows, and
> > gnus refuses to store mail there, maybe because of a matter of
> > permissions. But the command `$ ls -l /mnt' shows that the dir
> > /mnt/windows is writable by all users.  How can I work the problem
> > out?
> 
> You can't write to an NTFS file system from Gnu/Linux (I don't know if
> that's your setup, though).

No, that's not true.  It's been possible for a while, and it's not
even listed as "dangerous" anymore.  It's possible that the OP merely
needs to compile a new kernel with NTFS write support enabled.

-- 
Barutan Seijin -- barutanseijin@gmail.com


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-14 14:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-14 11:38 romeomedina
2005-08-14 12:08 ` Jesper Harder
2005-08-14 12:51   ` romeomedina
2005-08-14 14:04   ` Barutan Seijin [this message]
2005-08-14 15:15     ` romeomedina

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