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I'm transforming a Windows 7 PC into a dual boot system with Ubuntu 10.10. Following other questions on this site, I've mounted my Windows drive by adding this to fstab

UUID=blabla /windows ntfs users,defaults,umask=000 0 0

It appears to work well, I can read and write, but it appears to be a bit crippled still. When I tried to update an SVN working copy with RabbitVCS, it complained that it couldn't write to a temporary file inside the working copy, even though the permissions are all on 0777 inside /windows (by default, I haven't done that manually). It even corrupted that working copy :(

It works when I use the command line SVN client with sudo, but that's hardly user friendly.

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Bart van Heukelom
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Is there any reason that you need to work directly on the Windows partition?

NTFS really isn't a good file system to be working on. I'd recommend using an EXT3 or EXT4 file system for your vital work as these are more reliable. If you don't have enough space on your Ubuntu partition, you could boot Windows and shrink its partition then use gparted to create an extra EXT partition to work on.

How can I create a new partition with mountpoint by splitting an existing partition?

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dv3500ea
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You could try using ntfs-3g instead of ntfs in your fstab. Also make your user owner of mountpoint while mounted chown user /windows

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