Auto mounting drives with write access at startup
Hello
I have just found out that although I can read all partitons, I can only write to the system part. Tried as root. How can I tell it to mount all drives/parts with full read/write access on startup? Thanks Hong |
You need to set them as RW in fstab. For fat32 partitions (windows) you could add "umask=000" to the third column in fstab.
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Here is my fstab file:
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table. # # filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass /dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 /dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdd5 /mnt/hdd5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb1 none swap defaults 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdb3 /mnt/hdb3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0 I'm guessing I change it to: # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdc1 /mnt/hdc1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,rw,umask=000 0 0 # Added by KNOPPIX /dev/hdd5 /mnt/hdd5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,rw,umask=000 0 0 Is that right? Also, what about the other 2 below it? I want everything writabel. How would I change those? Thanks a lot Hong |
Haven't tried in KNoppix, but this is my fstab entry for a windows partition:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows/c vfat defaults,umask=000 0 0 You don't want to write to swap, that's a 'memory' partition for the system. |
well hdc1 is my (ntfs) data partition, and so hdd5. hdb3 is (ext3) empty, but will store data.
hdb1 is my swap it seems. so, is what i posted correct? out of curiousity, whats the syntax/switches for this? |
Looks OK.
I think you could substitute 'noauto,users,exec,rw' fro 'defaults' As for the meaning of it all, the first column describes the 'real' location of a device according to the system, the second where it will be mounted. The third, the file system, the fourth mount option. The last has, if I remember correctly, something to do with integrity checks. For more info on the mount options: man mount |
Thanks. I'll post back if there is a problem but it looks simple enough.
Regards Hong |
hm,
can u write on an NTFS drive? its safe? I don't know. just look for that. u can add an option in 'mount' uid=<username> so that user owns that mount. bye |
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