NTFS mounts [solved]

[omcaree]

Hey all,

 

Following a clean install of Mandriva 2005 Limited Edition I can no longer access my NTFS partitions as a user. I have 2 partitions, one mounted as /mnt/NTFS and the other unmounted. I have tried changing the permissions as root but it tells me that it cant because its a read only file system.

 

Now i'm not interested in writing to NTFS, just would like to know how to change the permissions such that a user can read it. Any ideas?

 

Cheers,

 

Owen

[Guest Baka]

I had the same problem, just edit your fstab file.

This is how mine looks:

 

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdg /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/hde1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/extra ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/extra2 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /mnt/extra3 ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

 

notice the /dev/hda1 /mnt/extra ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0 thats one of my ntfs hds.

 

hope this helps.

[omcaree]

Thanks Baka, worked a charm. but I've no idea why. Anyone care to explain how changing fstab from:

 

/dev/hda1 /mnt/NTFS ntfs umask=0022,nls=iso8859-15,ro 0 0

 

to

 

/dev/hda1 /mnt/NTFS ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0

 

allows users to read ?

 

 

Anyway, for now i'm happy.

 

Thanks again Baka

 

 

Owen

[Guest Baka]

^_^ glad I could be of help.....took me 3 days to find out how to do that!!! baka = japanese for stupid ;)

 

can't say I know the reason why its working now though........ :unsure:

[ianw1974]

My guess is that the umask numbers restrict what users can access the drive.