How to share Hard disk with other than the root user???

BULPulse · 11-16-2007, 05:26 PM

I have 2 hard disks and i want to be able to have all permissions to write and modify on both disks using one user other than the root??? I tried this: chmod -R a+rwx /ntfs-s
but it didn't work

onebuck · 11-16-2007, 05:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BULPulse

I have 2 hard disks and i want to be able to have all permissions to write and modify on both disks using one user other than the root??? I tried this: chmod -R a+rwx /ntfs-s
but it didn't work

Hi,

I would make sure the user is in the right group. I would also look at the sticky by rworkman; ' 12.0 and HAL - READ THIS!'

Do you have 'ntfs-3g' installed? This would allow you to r/w NTFS file systems.

XGizzmo · 11-16-2007, 07:05 PM

Edit /etc/fstab and add the needed options to the drive you want to use, like "users" and maybe "fmask".

rworkman · 11-16-2007, 11:01 PM

http://slackwiki.org/Windows_Partitions

Note that by default, you don't have write ability on ntfs partitions. For that, you'll need to either upgrade the ntfsutils in Slackware or install ntfs-3g.

BULPulse · 11-22-2007, 01:33 PM

I have installed ntfs-3g and nothing happend

Alien_Hominid · 11-22-2007, 03:58 PM

You need to have fuse installed and mount using -t ntfs-3g.

Please read:

Code:

man ntfs-3g

gilead · 11-22-2007, 04:01 PM

When you say that nothing happened - do you mean that you re-mounted the disk but didn't get write access? Can you post the commands you used please?

shadowsnipes · 11-23-2007, 09:16 AM

There are many ways you can go about this. For me, I don't want my windows partition to be mounted automatically and I only want my Crossover group (gid=102) to have access to it. The following entry in fstab does this. Notice the umask makes it so the owner (root) and the group have full rw access, but no one else.

Code:

/dev/hda1       /mnt/Windows            ntfs-3g         defaults,noauto,gid=102,umask=007       0       0

Change this to reflect your mount point and hardrive partition.

Root will have to mount the partition or you will have to sudo or have it automatically mounted using this scheme (ie. your user cannot mount it). If you really need your user to be the owner you can write a udev rule to take care of that.

If you are having trouble installing fuse or ntfs-3g I recommend using the slackbuilds to compile and install them.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/system/fuse/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/system/ntfs-3g/

BULPulse · 11-24-2007, 01:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shadowsnipes

There are many ways you can go about this. For me, I don't want my windows partition to be mounted automatically and I only want my Crossover group (gid=102) to have access to it. The following entry in fstab does this. Notice the umask makes it so the owner (root) and the group have full rw access, but no one else.

Code:

/dev/hda1       /mnt/Windows            ntfs-3g         defaults,noauto,gid=102,umask=007       0       0

Change this to reflect your mount point and hardrive partition.

Root will have to mount the partition or you will have to sudo or have it automatically mounted using this scheme (ie. your user cannot mount it). If you really need your user to be the owner you can write a udev rule to take care of that.

If you are having trouble installing fuse or ntfs-3g I recommend using the slackbuilds to compile and install them.

http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/system/fuse/
http://slackbuilds.org/repository/12.0/system/ntfs-3g/

Thank you! This worked fine for me.