Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
Thanks, that is a perfect solution to my problem. Esp. since I am not having much luck getting ntfs-3g installed and running. Odd. For what it's worth I don't use ntfs much, but I tried ntfs-3g the other day, and it was trivial: apt-get install ntfs-3g, then mount. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
The standard implementation of NTFS for Linux is read-only IIRC. There is NTFS-3g, which is rw, you can try that. As for the partition being mounted root-only, read the manual page of mount (man mount). Look in the section Mount options for ntfs for the options uid=value,gid=value and umask=value. Also, it might be convenient to study the option user. IIRC, this is a standard mount option (that is, not specific to NTFS) that allows any user (that is, not only root) to mount a given mount point. Look it up in the man page. /dev/hda1 on /cdrv type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=100) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# chmod a+rx /cdrv chmod: changing permissions of `/cdrv': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# And everything is still 400 or 600. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.
Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they aren't smb or exported. I really don't like to run as root because I make a lot of typos, some of which could be disastrous! Here is what happens: (Notice I am root right now.) /dev/hda1 on /cdrv type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=100) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# chmod a+rx /cdrv chmod: changing permissions of `/cdrv': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# And everything is still 400 or 600. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?? Many TIA! Dennis As others have suggested you might want to try ntfs-3g, but I can explain why only root can see the files. The uid=0 is setting it to root only access. Change it to uid=1000 or whatever id that your user has, or just remove it (and the gid as well). This line will work (in /etc/fstab) /dev/hda1 /cdrv ntfs auto,users,exec,ro,umask=0 0 0 without ntfs-3g and give you read only access to it, which is the safest way. Note the auto,users,exec,ro,umask=0 That means, automount the partitions, allow users to use it and make it read and execute (if it were rw, then it would also allow writing). Personally, I don't recommend even using ntfs partitions at all. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGBWSbiXBCVWpc5J4RAn/aAJ9imcylYDinRXoM4e9VSdnNd4g1RQCeLAoZ RTubD0rgjp6VsoovcxIsEOs= =nFtw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they aren't smb or exported. I really don't like to run as root because I make a lot of typos, some of which could be disastrous! Here is what happens: (Notice I am root right now.) /dev/hda1 on /cdrv type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=100) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# chmod a+rx /cdrv chmod: changing permissions of `/cdrv': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# And everything is still 400 or 600. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?? Many TIA! Dennis As others have suggested you might want to try ntfs-3g, but I can explain why only root can see the files. The uid=0 is setting it to root only access. Change it to uid=1000 or whatever id that your user has, or just remove it (and the gid as well). This line will work (in /etc/fstab) /dev/hda1 /cdrv ntfs auto,users,exec,ro,umask=0 0 0 without ntfs-3g and give you read only access to it, which is the safest way. Note the auto,users,exec,ro,umask=0 That means, automount the partitions, allow users to use it and make it read and execute (if it were rw, then it would also allow writing). Personally, I don't recommend even using ntfs partitions at all. Joe - -- Joe; Thanks, that is a perfect solution to my problem. Esp. since I am not having much luck getting ntfs-3g installed and running. Read-only is all I really need, so that will work well. I am not using ntfs because I can but because after more than 10 years of using Windows we probably have nearly 500 gig of data accumulated. It is backed up, but no way is it going to get copied or converted to Linux any time soon! We will probably be exploring the capabilities of wine quite extensivly. (software and beverage both I imagine!) BTW. I notice you are using Icedove. How to you like it? I have been using Tbird for quite awhile and need a good Linux product. Many thanks! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they aren't smb or exported. I really don't like to run as root because I make a lot of typos, some of which could be disastrous! Here is what happens: (Notice I am root right now.) /dev/hda1 on /cdrv type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=100) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# chmod a+rx /cdrv chmod: changing permissions of `/cdrv': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# And everything is still 400 or 600. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?? Many TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to: Mount NTFS filesystems RW
Dennis G. Wicks napisał(a): Greetings; I am dual booting my desktop and most everything is working fine. But, I can't get to my Win 2k disks unless I am logged on as root. The arg line in fstab specifies rw, but they are mounted ro for root only! Note: since Windows is not running they aren't smb or exported. I really don't like to run as root because I make a lot of typos, some of which could be disastrous! Here is what happens: (Notice I am root right now.) /dev/hda1 on /cdrv type ntfs (rw,uid=0,gid=100) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# chmod a+rx /cdrv chmod: changing permissions of `/cdrv': Read-only file system [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# And everything is still 400 or 600. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?? Many TIA! Dennis Try http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ -- Maciej Rutecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
