Mounted Windows Root Only

damoncf · 08-20-2004, 11:05 PM

I had previously asked for help mounting a windows partition and was successful in doing so. When I went to actually use it though I found it was mounted root only. I am unable to access it by any means besides superuser mode or a root terminal. I attempted to unmount it but with out any luck.

Any and all help will be greatly appreciated,
Damon

Here is a link to the original post: My original Post

gizmo_thunder · 08-20-2004, 11:10 PM

you should not be in that dir, i mean the windows dir when you are trying to
unmount the partiton.. may be there is some app you opened in that.. dir..
or some terminal in that dir.. just check it out.

linmix · 08-21-2004, 09:06 AM

what options did you use to mount it?
Did you add it to fstab, and with what options?

atheist · 08-21-2004, 03:38 PM

Here's the /etc/fstab entry for my windows partition:

Code:

/dev/hda1       /mnt/windows    vfat rw,umask=0 0 0

I haven't mounted an NTFS partition myself under Linux but a friend has and appearantly all he had to do was to replace vfat with ntfs in the above entry. Oh, yeah... I can read or write into that partition as any user.

jeru · 08-21-2004, 09:59 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by atheist

Code:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat rw,umask=0 0 0

Well, one thing you might not want to do is run rw yet. (isn't it still 'not good' to wtire to ntfs?)

Anyways, here is how I mount my NTFS drive

Code:

/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0

linmix · 08-22-2004, 03:00 PM

Haven't tried it myself, but I've heard kernel 2.6 supports NTFS write.

I'd change the umask settings to "umask=002" (instead of a single '0')

jeru · 08-22-2004, 04:15 PM

Yes, I know it supports it to some extent right now with 2.6. But I don't know, the project site still seems to indicate you might not want to use it yet. (who knows, the actual site is abandoned right now, so this is judging from the discussion forums... didn't check the list archives)

I'd read up a little more on it to weigh the risks if you want to write right now.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/