Problems with chown Windows Partition

fernandorui · n00b Joined: 11 May 2006 Posts: 38

Hello everybody,

I have a partition that has 60Gb of music and fotos....
I Have mounted it in a NTFS partition because I have windows in the machine.

I put the follow line in Fstab:

/dev/sda1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g users,uid=users,gid=users 0 0

But, when I got into this folder there are subfolders that I can't modify with normal user.
And When a try to copy to this folder I got Operation not permitted.

So I do a chown to force all the mount point to be for my user like.

chown -R fernandorui:fernandorui /mnt/windows

and I got Operation Not Permitted.

I don't know Why this is happen, because I put the correct line in Fstab, acoording to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_NTFS_write_with_ntfs-3g

I got this problems with FAT32 and NTFS was not supported...

Somebody knows why there is this problems...

thanks.

gimpel · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:21 pm Post subject:

uid=users doesn't make any sense, except you really have a user called "users" on your system. Try uid=<id of your user>, e.g. uid=1000

And you cannot chown -R a folder with a windows partition mounted in it, so simply chown fernandorui: /mnt/windows
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ianw1974 · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 12:30 pm Post subject:

You are better off adding to the options in /etc/fstab: