Hi,

I recently changed from SuSE to Slackware, and I am delighted. Just a few thins I haven't figured out yet, but it seems definitely worth the effort.
So, one of my questions is:

I have three FAT32 partitions, which I can mount and access as user without a problem. My NTFS partition though, although I mount it as user, will be owned by root:root and can only be accessed by root.

The mount points are owned by root:users and all four fstab entries contain 'users'.

What would I have to do to mount my NTFS partition as user and access it as such (read-only of course)?

TIA,
MikTheUser

Did you try to change 'users' to 'user' in fstab ?

Yes. Still, when I mount the NTFS partition as user, it will "belong" to root:root.

try add user,umask=0222 in your fstab for the NTFS mountpoint

thanx a lot, I'll try that tomorrow!
just out of curiosity, how does this umask thing work? it it kinda like chmod or what do the numbers stand for?

cheers, mik

umask it's like chmod but the numbers are the oposite of chmod, ie: what you chmod 777 (give all permissions to user, group and others) in umask is 000.

Another thing, in my fstab i always use user,gid=100,umask=007 That will make the files that are mounted belong to the group users (gid=100) so it can be used by any of my users, also it makes it gives,write and execute permissions to user & group and none to others