Does this fstab look OK?

bunnyrage · 09-28-2005, 04:58 PM

by the way what are you doing??

what do you do for a living??

Charred · 09-28-2005, 08:38 PM

add "user" to the partition's options in the fstab!

And I read from NTFS all the time, I keep my mp3's on a drive formatted with NTFS!

mouldy_punk · 09-29-2005, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by bunnyrage
chmod 777 /dev/hd*

i know you can access them but i dont know what good its going to do, who knows you may very weel be able to

chmod should change your permissions

I tried chmod, didn't make any difference :\

Charred: What syntax do I use to add users to the fstab? Do I just write;

/dev/hdc1 /mnt/C ntfs ro, user 0 0
or
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/C ntfs ro user 0 0

?

Quote:

by the way what are you doing??

what do you do for a living??

Unemployed, 17 years old, college student

Charred · 09-29-2005, 11:18 AM

Here's the fstab from my laptop:

Quote:

/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

bunnyrage · 09-29-2005, 11:30 AM

punk: thats cool.

college,

but i saw some one was able to mount an ntfs partition,
didnt know if it was you??

mouldy_punk · 09-29-2005, 11:52 AM

yeah...it was me who mounted the ntfs partition - check my earlier post :\

Charred: Thanks

Charred · 09-29-2005, 12:06 PM

Anytime. Let us know how it goes.

Boow · 09-29-2005, 12:09 PM

well you need to look up umask gid uid options the way you have it now only root will be able to access the drives.

man mount

Charred · 09-29-2005, 12:31 PM

Hmmm...
Forgot about that. Shame on me!

mouldy_punk · 09-29-2005, 01:50 PM

Ok, I added users, but like Boow said, only root can access the drives. How do I do the uid and gid thing? I had a look at man mount and this is what I've figured out;

/dev/hdc1 /mnt/C ntfs ro,user,uid=1000 gid=1000 0 0

1000 being the user ID of my account and also the group ID of my account...is that right? What do I do with umask?

Charred · 09-29-2005, 02:49 PM

According to man mount

Quote:

Mount options for ntfs:
iocharset=name
Character set to use when returning file names. Unlike VFAT, NTFS suppresses names that contain unconvertible characters.
utf8
Use UTF-8 for converting file names.
uni_xlate=[0|1|2]
For 0 (or `no' or `false'), do not use escape sequences for unknown Unicode characters. For 1 (or `yes' or `true') or 2, use vfat-style 4-byte escape sequences starting with ":". Here 2 give a little-endian encoding and 1 a byteswapped bigendian encoding.
posix=[0|1]
If enabled (posix=1), the file system distinguishes between upper and lower case. The 8.3 alias names are presented as hard links instead of being suppressed.
[uid=value, gid=value and umask=value
Set the file permission on the filesystem. By default, the files are owned by root and not readable by somebody else. The umask value is given in octal.

Try something like

Code:

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

Edit:
Try man chmod for more.

mouldy_punk · 09-29-2005, 03:07 PM

Hooray it worked!

Just one more little question though, how do I change the drive order in the Places menu (gnome)

At the moment it's like:

Home Folder
Desktop
-------------------
Computer
E
D
C
------------------
Network Servers
Connect to Server
-------------------
Search for files
Recent Documents >

and I would like it like:

Home Folder
Desktop
-------------------
Computer
C
D
E
------------------
Network Servers
Connect to Server
-------------------
Search for files
Recent Documents >

Charred · 10-03-2005, 09:31 PM

This is all I could find:http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-40603.html