NTFS mounted but inaccessible by non-root

colonel · 07-02-2006, 02:12 AM

Hi, i've installed the NTFS modules into my kernel etc, and have been trying to mount my NTFS windows drive. I managed to mount it, but only the root can access it. When I chown chris /media/windoze , (my username is chris)i get:

Code:

chown: changing ownership of `/media/windoze/': Read-only file system

When i use the root user i can successfully copy and view files on the drive. But that's hardly ideal for obvious reasons...
Thanks for any suggestions if you have any ideas,
Chris.

binary_y2k2 · 07-02-2006, 02:19 AM

there is no wright support for NTFS so you couldn't do that, also NTFS dosent support unix/linux file permissins so chown is useless here.
What you want to do is change the mount options
if you mount manually then:

Code:

mount /dev/hdX /media/windows -t ntfs -o uid=(your username),gid=(group name)

if you mount automatically then if /etc/fstab you need to add "user" to the options. eg:

Code:

/dev/hdX /media/windows ntfs user,noauto 0 0

duffmckagan · 07-02-2006, 07:37 AM

If you like that NTFS Drive to be mounted at start...then add the following line to /etc/fstab and then restart the computer for the changes to come into effect.

Code:

/dev/hdxx /media/windoze ntfs umask=0222 1 0

I hope you can replace the hdxx by the proper numbers.

Also, if you don't want it to be mounted at startup,

Code:

mount /dev/hdxx /media/windoze/ -t ntfs -o umask=0222