On Monday 26 February 2007 19:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS (windows) > > main partition listed in fstab with "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A > > normal user can mount and umount it, but cannot change directories, > > look at files, etc. as they'll get a permission denied error. When I > > list the files and dirs, they all show up as belonging to > > "root:root", with no access for group and others. > > > > My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least > > read these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on the > > NTFS partition? > > ntfs does not understand unix permissions, so there is no concept of a > unix owner and group. You use the uid and gid options to fudge one - > normally root:root is ok. > > Then to set permissions, use the umask option. 0555 should be OK - > read/execute for all. It must be 5 otherwise you can't cd into a > directory. > > Actually you want fmask and dmask options like as in vfat, but mount -t > ntfs doesn't support that, so you have to make do with umask.
Whilst you're at it you may want to consider ntfs-3g which can also write to ntfs: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=ntfs3g I haven't had any corruption or failures so far (keeps fingers crossed) but I am not sure that I would trust a production environment to it. You mileage may vary. -- Regards, Mick
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