file systems locked for non-root

dasRatsel · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 40

so -- i put all my windows ntfs partitions in fstab with the following options:

noatime,ro

but when i login -- i cant access them -- apparently they can only be accessed by root -- what else to do? -- i cant just change the permissions cause i cant write to ntfs ... what should i do?

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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

Assuming your NTFS file system is on /dev/hda5 and your mount point is /mnt/ntfs, you'd need a fstab entry along the lines of:

dasRatsel · n00b Joined: 04 Aug 2004 Posts: 40

works beautifuly thanks -- although i've never had that problem before -- what does the umask=000 option do exactly?
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moocha · Watchman Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 5722

It prevents the kernel from removing any permissions from the user, group, and others permission groups.
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pilla · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:53 am Post subject:

Moved to OTG
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