Re: [newbie] access permissions to ntfs partitions

[Lyvim Xaphir]

On Thu, 2002-04-25 at 02:35, David wrote:
> I know I have seem this posted before, but I haven't been able to find it yet.  
>Below is am excerpt from my fstab.  Root can access the partitions, a user can mount 
>them but not access them.  Error reads: permission denied.  
> 
> I've tried everything I can think of.  Nothing has worked yet.  Could someone tell 
>me what is wrong with my config?  
> 
> 
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/C ntfs user,defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /mnt/E ntfs user,defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda7 /mnt/F ntfs user,defaults 0 0

I note that a vfat entry in fstab looks like this:


/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0


Perhaps your entries are too bare?  I haven't studied iso or codepage
settings for ntfs yet.  But you may require them.

HTH,

LX


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