i'm experiencing trouble mounting my second hard drive, of type ntfs.
my distro is mandrake 9.2.

mount -t ntfs /dev/hdb /mnt/juhta

bash returns error

mount: mount point /mnt/juhta does not exist


i am a newbie, so if there's a faq please point me to it

mkdir /mnt/juhta

The directory has to exist in order for something to be mounted there

oops

another problem: how can i change the permissions for the dir /mnt/juhta (and for its subdirectories and other read-only directories)?
i need to permit read access for all users not just for root only, for some files on the ntfs drive.

man chmod

man chown

Chmod is the command to change the permissions on a file, and chown is the command to change the ownership of a file.

The Rute Guide has a nice node on File Permissions for those new to the UNIX Way: http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node17.html.gz

In short a file with this: '-rwxr-xr-x' would have read-write-execute for the owner, read-execute for the group, and read-execute for everyone else. To give these permissions to a file you do: 'chmod +755 myfile'

Check out the rest of the Rute Guide and maybe bookmark it, it is a great starting-point for new Linux users!

thank you

but the bash returns error

chmod: changing permissions of `juhta/': Read-only file system

Yes, Linux has sketchy NTFS write support. Most likely, you only have NTFS drivers that handle reading a partition (this is normal).

Since write-support is experimental, I would not recommend trying it. Here is a response from the Linux NTFS Project: http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#3.2.

I always use FAT32 on my Windows partitions for precisely this reason!

so it is not possible to allow other users than root to access ntfs mounted disks?

Hi,

It's possible try this command:
It will give you full read access for everyone (as ntfs is not writeable)...

Oliv'