How to automount windowsdisks in Linux
I just manage to mount my NTFS disks in Linux, but how do I make linux mount them every bootup?
BTW, how do I know that I have read-only access to the NTFS disks (I don't want to lose my data!)? |
The easiest way to do it would be to open /etc/fstab in a text editor and add a line with /dev/hd(xp's partition number), wherever you mounted it under Linux, it's type (ntfs), then auto,ro, and finally 0 0. NTFS write support is experimental and very dangerous and knowing Mandrake they wouldn't all you to. Also the ro means read only so it should work.
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Ok deferent person here, same question.
For me it wasn't this easy at all. Im a week old user of Redhat 7.3. I've had to reconfigure my kernel to support NTFS fs. (using make xconfig in /usr/src/Linux-2.4) After installing the kernel source rpm of course. Then.... All seems to be working, however As root I can mount the selected NTFS partition using the command mount -t ntfs /dev/hda5 /NTFS works fine but only root has read access, no one else, can read it. Any clues as to how I fix it. I appretiate I only installed the NTFS read option in the kernel, I dont particularly want to write, but how do I set it so that all users can read it? btw I tried chmod -R a+r as root, "Read only file system, carn't change" *sigh* |
Here's a copy of my /etc/fstab file, all my users and my root can mount and umount my partition:
Code:
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 Cool |
Cool thanks,
it was that dammed umask thing, ah well its always the little things Thanks, Now all I have to do is work out how to get linux to use my other sound card, install my modem, fix module problems...........oh well slowly but surely gingerchris |
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