Edit fstab to give read only permissions to users

sanctusiuda · 05-23-2007, 11:51 AM

Hi, i have a question, probably very newbie, anyway i need to access to my ntfs partition were i have stored some text documents, music and videos from my user account, y try to edit the fstab file adding the user option, but seems like not working, so that's my question i have two hard disk one of them is SATA and the other is IDE the two hard disk mount in MNT as C and E folder I using the automount on startup, how i should to edit the fstab file, or you have any other idea, Thanks.

jaymoney · 05-23-2007, 12:10 PM

have you added ntfs support by installing ntfs-3g? what distro are you using? in fstab you set permissions with umask.

ex:
umask=0000 (that is full permission to everyone)
umask=0007 (full permission to owner and group, denies everyone else)

sanctusiuda · 05-23-2007, 04:37 PM

yes I have ntfs-3g, but i haven't tried the umask oh, let me see if this works thank you very much

sanctusiuda · 05-23-2007, 09:52 PM

Solved! that's was the problem umask=0000 it was in umask=2020 the permissions. Thanks