John Richard Smith wrote: >Many Thanks for all your replies, >My fstab file now looks like the file fstab attatched to this email >please do criticise it if it warrants it. > >I now have nicely mounted ntfs partitions. > >A couple of questions, though, I chose, default 0 0 , merely because of >similar example, not knowing what I am really doing, other options are >Unmask=0 , etc, and I expect there are some I don't know about. > >I would welcome a brief explanation , just in case I ought to being doing >it differently. > >John > >On Thursday 07 March 2002 17:37, you wrote: > >>Re: [newbie] Browsing NTFS partitions >> >> * From: paolo brusasco >> * Subject: Re: [newbie] Browsing NTFS partitions >> * Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 07:38:17 -0800 >> >>Jeff Quandt wrote: >> >>>Is it possible to browse NTFS partitions from Mandrake 8.1? It would >>> >>save me >> >>>a lot of time moving things from XP to Linux if I didn't have to reboot >>> >>all >> >>>the time to find the files I need. >>> >>>Thanks >>> >>>------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>I mount my ntfs partition (usin mandrake 8.1, kde), by: >>-adding a directory in /mnt/ named /mnt/win2000 (full access >>permissions) >>-adding a line in /etc/fstab like: >>/dev/hdb5 /mnt/win2000 ntfs umask=0 0 0 >>(where hdb5 is the ntfs partition in my system according to mandrake >>control center). >>your system should mount ntfs partition at boot. I think you can't >>write to it (I posted that question some days ago and it seems you have >>to recompile the kernel with experimental options to write to ntfs). >>bye. paolo brusasco >> >>On Thu, 2002-03-07 at 11:50, John Richard Smith wrote: >> >>>OK, I've read how to mount Vfat partitions, and accomplished it, >>>but how do you mount NTFS partitions in linux. >>> >>> >>>John >>> >>_________________________________________________________ >>Do You Yahoo!? >>Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com >> > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 >/dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 >/dev/hda1 /mnt/win2000 ntfs defaults 0 0 >none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 >none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 >/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto >0 0 >/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto >user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 >/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto >user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 >/dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto >user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 >none /proc proc defaults 0 0 >/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > I think umask=0 means you can aceess as normal user, otherwise filesystem would be mounted as root and viewed only by root. following 0 0 should be about dumping and checking filesystem. if you want to know more : of course, you can find full technical explainations opening a console and typing "man mount" and "man fstab". Or, you can go to mandrakeonline, and then to mandrakeuser web sites (more easy).
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