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Old 11-02-2007, 10:47 AM   #1
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changing ownership of a mounted drive


Code:
dyn189:/mnt # mkdir win
dyn189:/mnt # ls
win
dyn189:/mnt # mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/win/

dyn189:/mnt # cd win
dyn189:/mnt/win # l
insgesamt 1572320
dr-x------ 1 root root       4096 31. Okt 18:26 ./
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root       4096  2. Nov 16:42 ../
-r-------- 1 root root          0  6. Aug 13:02 AUTOEXEC.BAT
-r-------- 1 root root        211 31. Okt 18:21 boot.ini
-r-------- 1 root root          0  6. Aug 13:02 CONFIG.SYS

dyn189:/mnt/win # cd ..
dyn189:/mnt # chown -R kerem win
chown: Ändern des Eigentümers von „win/AUTOEXEC.BAT“: Das Dateisystem ist nur lesbar
chown: Ändern des Eigentümers von „win/boot.ini“: Das Dateisystem ist nur lesbar
chown: Ändern des Eigentümers von „win/CONFIG.SYS“: Das Dateisystem ist nur lesbar
I have mounted my windows partition on win directory..it belongs to root and as a normal user i cannot read it. wenn i try to change the ownership of the directory, i am getting an error message saying "filesystem could not be read". how can i deal with it?
 
Old 11-02-2007, 11:10 AM   #2
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I don't think permissions work the same in Linux and Windows... So, chowning files on an NTFS partition doesn't make sense.

Besides that, it looks like the partition is being mounted read-only.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 11:17 AM   #3
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so..how can i mount it being avaiable for a specified user?
 
Old 11-02-2007, 11:44 AM   #4
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Unmount the partition, and check the permissions on the mount-point dir... "ls -l /mnt/win". If it's not fully accessible to users, you can change the permission on it with chmod. When you mount it, it should then be readable by users.

As for writing, that's another story. Most distros come with the ability to read an NTFS partition; few come with the ability to write to one. You'd have to search Google, or hope somebody who's done it replies.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 12:14 PM   #5
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Try Slax if you want to write on NTFS partitions.

It is shipped with ntfs-3g, will mount every partition you have got, give you the root privilege and allow you to drag and drop files in the desktop exactly as though you are in a MS Windows.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 12:37 PM   #6
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Which distro are you using? I'm on Ubuntu, had similar problem, solved with ntfs-3g package.

If you do have Ubuntu, search for this package in Synaptic and install it, along with any suggested dependancies. You can then write to ntfs.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 12:50 PM   #7
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i am using opensuse 10.3
what is ntfs 3g ?
how can i install it?
 
Old 11-02-2007, 12:58 PM   #8
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It's just a package that allows you to write to ntfs-formatted drives. ntfs is a Windows filesystem, and by default, linux can only read it, not write to it. Installing the ntfs-3g package allows you to write as well as read.

I know nothing about OpenSUSE, so have a look here: http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS
 
Old 11-02-2007, 02:36 PM   #9
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try ...

mount -t ntfs -o uid=yourusername /dev/sda1 /mnt/win/

(or possibly uid=youruid ... don't have an nfs folder to mount right now to check it)

You don't need ntfs3g or any other read-write functionality if you're just trying to read from the partition. ntfs3g is a new-generation linux ntfs driver that has vastly improved support for writing, compared to previous ntfs linux support.

Last edited by complich8; 11-02-2007 at 02:38 PM.
 
Old 11-02-2007, 02:50 PM   #10
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For reliable read/write support, you really need ntfs-3g. Look through the software manager under Yast, I'm sure you'll find it.

As for permissions, one of the earlier posters was right to point out that permissions under windows do not quite work the way they do under Linux. In order to make it work, you have to put these option in fstab:

defaults,uid=your_user_ID,gid=your_group_ID,umask=0022

So if your uid=1000 and your gid=1000, those are the values that need to be inserted.

I see that Ubuntu does it as simply as this: defaults,umask=007, gid=46 (gid here points to the plugdev group, which includes any users who have permissions to mount/umount disks). It may not be that simple on Suse (it may require some extra editing) so it is probably better to choose the first option.

Last edited by jay73; 11-02-2007 at 02:52 PM.
 
  


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