Mounting NTFS in SuSE 8.0

Fred Affe · 08-14-2003, 12:27 PM

Hi folks!

I'm trying to mount my NTFS-Drives (Win2K).

Well, I got so far: Root mounts the NTFS-Drives and can read them. But when the user tries to open the folder (e.g. /Windows/E), Linux says he doesn't have the necessary rights to open the folder.

I tried to use chmod 777 before mounting the drive, but it didn't work.

fstab looks like this:
/dev/hdb7 /windows/E ntfs auto,user 0 0

Thanks for your answers, and please forgive my English, I'm from Germany.

Greets
Fred Affe

Skyline · 08-14-2003, 12:38 PM

Use these options in your /etc/fstab entry - just substitute your user id number ( uid ) in place of my example one

auto,ro,umask=222,uid=501

You can get your User ID Number by opening a command line and typing:

id username – (substitute username with Aaron or Sofie or whatever your username is)

Look for the

uid=xxx

thats your user id number

Fred Affe · 08-14-2003, 01:04 PM

Well.... at least the user can open the folder now

When the drives get mounted on startup, they appear as /windows/E and /windows/F, before I changed fstab the user wasn't able to open the folder at all (it had a lock as icon) and root could read the files in it, and now the user can open the folder, but it's empty. Root can read the folders nevertheless.

What does "umask" do?

Skyline · 08-14-2003, 03:06 PM

Umask just sets a filter of permissions for all new files created

As a matter of interest - can you post your /etc/fstab contents

You can get them by opening a Konsole and typing

su
then type your root password

then type

kedit /etc/fstab

.

Awatto · 08-14-2003, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Fred Affe
Well.... at least the user can open the folder now

When the drives get mounted on startup, they appear as /windows/E and /windows/F, before I changed fstab the user wasn't able to open the folder at all (it had a lock as icon) and root could read the files in it, and now the user can open the folder, but it's empty. Root can read the folders nevertheless.

What does "umask" do?

This is what I have, edit it to fit yours:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

Works fine, all users with read only permission

Quote:

umask is a filter of permissions, so it works in the opposite way to chmod. Full permissions are equivalent to 777 (rwxrwxrwx). A umask of 0222 (-w--w--w-) leaves 555 (r-xr-xr-x).

Skyline · 08-14-2003, 06:49 PM

Quote:

This is what I have, edit it to fit yours:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs ro,umask=0222 0 0

Awatto - you've forgot

auto

He's not going to have his partition automatically mounted on boot up without this.

Awatto · 08-14-2003, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Skyline
Awatto - you've forgot

auto

He's not going to have his partition automatically mounted on boot up without this.

Hmm, strange, mine does, lol. Must be because of different distro, but thanks for pointing that out.

Skyline · 08-14-2003, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Hmm, strange, mine does, lol. Must be because of different distro, but thanks for pointing that out

Awatto - just to clarify - are you suggesting that your partition automatically mounts on boot up without an auto option?

Awatto · 08-14-2003, 07:14 PM

Yep. Tha's exactly what I have in my fstab and it is mounted every time I boot up ever since I added it...

Skyline · 08-14-2003, 07:25 PM

You havent answered my question - I pointed out that Fred would need an auto option in his fstab entry to have his Windows partition automatically mounted on boot up.

To that you replied

Quote:

Hmm, strange, mine does, lol.

implying that you have your Windows partition automatically mounted on boot up without an auto option

So I'll ask you again - is it possible to have your Windows partition automatically mounted on boot up without an auto option?

Awatto · 08-14-2003, 07:31 PM

Sorry for being unclear.

Yes - Mine is automatically mounted, and does not have an auto option.

Fred Affe · 08-15-2003, 12:59 AM

This is what my fstab looks like now:

Code:

/dev/hda4	/	reiserfs	defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom	/media/cdrom	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
devpts	/dev/pts	devpts	defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0	/media/floppy	auto	noauto,user,sync 0 0
proc	/proc	proc	defaults 0 0
usbdevfs	/proc/bus/usb	usbdevfs	noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb7	/windows/E	ntfs	auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb6	/windows/F	ntfs	auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0
/dev/hdb5	/windows/G	vfat	auto,user,fat=32 0 0
/dev/hda3	swap	swap	pri=42 0 0

And I have to say: It works!!!

Thank you very much for your help!!