Can't read mounted drive

mabarnes · 12-18-2003, 10:08 PM

I can mount a drive just fine, have to do it as root, but when I login in as a user I can't read the mounted drive. What do I do?

Kristijan · 12-18-2003, 11:05 PM

Try and use a umask

eg: mount -o umask=022 /dev/device /mnt/mntpoint

mabarnes · 12-19-2003, 12:00 PM

Now how do I make it so it mounts like then when I login.

aaa · 12-19-2003, 12:07 PM

Add line to /etc/fstab file using a text-editor as the root user. It is pretty straightforward, you can figure it out by looking at it. The 'umask=022' goes in the options field, where 'defaults' sometimes is, before the last two zeros. Multiple options are seperated by commas, and each field is seperated by a space. Also put an 'auto' option to mount on startup. Don't forget to search, this is asked all the time.

Kristijan · 12-19-2003, 10:36 PM

This is the entry from my fstab

Code:

/dev/hda5       /mnt/windows      ntfs        umask=022