fstab: should be child's play

bezdomny · 03-04-2009, 09:37 AM

Windows partition won't mount automatically at boot.. It's accessible only to root., despite "user" option in fstab.

gparted lists NTFS partition as

Quote:

/dev/hda1

Output of parted:

Code:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  40.0GB  40.0GB  primary  ntfs         boot

Pertinent line in fstab:

Quote:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs auto,user,noexec,rw,sync 0 0

What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help available.

kilgoretrout · 03-04-2009, 10:56 AM

Unless you are using the ntfs-3g driver, your ntfs partition should be configured read only, not rw.

Was this partition present when you installed debian lenny? In my case, lenny automatically set up my ntfs partition with the ntfs-3g driver. Here's what the entry looks like:

/dev/hde1 /mnt/win_c ntfs-3g defaults 0 0

makuyl · 03-04-2009, 12:20 PM

IIRC with ntfs-3g the user must also be in the group fuse.

bezdomny · 03-04-2009, 01:03 PM

Thanks, everyone. umask=022 (picked up at Debian Forums) was the solution. Also changed to ro.