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| Thread ID: 29062 | 2003-01-09 02:48:00 | Linux / How to mount NTFS readable to non-root | Stormwarden (388) | Press F1 |
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| 112250 | 2003-01-09 02:48:00 | I'm brand new to linux, I'm trying out/experimenting with Mandrake 9.0 after finally getting the thing to work properly. When I installed I unplugged my windows/normal HDD, left in just the linux one so that nothing could go wrong with the rest of my computer. Now that I have linux going, I want to mount my windows NTFS partition so that I can see/read it with my normal (not root) account. I can mount the drive, and so on, and it works fine in root mode, but I cant change any of the permissions for the drive since it's read only. The directory appears as locked in my usual account (stormwarden). Currently I am using KDE 3.0, linux is on the primary slave drive (hdb1 i think) and windows is on the primary master (hda1?). I just tell the bios to boot from the secondary HDD, so I can use the linux boot manager without altering my windows drive. |
Stormwarden (388) | ||
| 112251 | 2003-01-09 02:53:00 | Login as root If you go into the directory: /mnt/ and look for a sub-directory called hda1 (or your NTFS mount), right-click on it and you'll see the properties there, put a tick in all the boxes in the first 3 coloums (everybody only gets read-only anyways coz mandrake doesnt come with write-to-NTFS capabilities as its too dodgy at this stage). Log out and in as your user and you should be able to read it! Cheers Chilling_Silence |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 112252 | 2003-01-09 02:54:00 | Login as root If you go into the directory: /mnt/ and look for a sub-directory called hda1 (or your NTFS mount), right-click on it and you'll see the properties there, put a tick in all the boxes in the first 3 coloums (everybody only gets read-only anyways coz mandrake doesnt come with write-to-NTFS capabilities as its too dodgy at this stage). Log out and in as your user and you should be able to read it! Cheers Chilling_Silence Another thing, if you're in CLI mode, type this: chmod 777 foldernamehere that should do the same :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 112253 | 2003-01-09 04:34:00 | I'm not sure about this because I don't have any NTFS partitions, but it should work. As root, edit the file /etc/fstab, and add the word "user" in the options field of the NTFS disk's entry. Use a text editor, not a word processor (or save as text). Make a backup copy of the file first, so you can recover if you make an "error". The entry will probably have the "ro" option there too. I would suggest not changing that to rw. You could easily have an accident with that. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 112254 | 2003-01-09 04:35:00 | I'm not sure about this because I don't have any NTFS partitions, but it should work. As root, edit the file /etc/fstab, and add the word "user" in the options field of the NTFS disk's entry. Use a text editor, not a word processor (or save as text). Make a backup copy of the file first, so you can recover if you make an "error". The entry will probably have the "ro" option there too. I would suggest not changing that to rw. You could easily have an accident with that. ;-) |
Graham L (2) | ||
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