[SOLVED] I can't access my windows partition.

dwnthk · 05-07-2016, 04:56 AM

Hi guys,

When I installed my Linux, I mounted a windows partition, and named it /winfiles. The root has no problem accessing the winfiles. But user has no right to access the the winfiles directory.

The winfiles has "drwx------" permission. I tried to add permission to the directory but failed to do it.

The command

Quote:

chmod 711 winfiles

has done nothing.

What should I do so the user has permission to access /winfiles?

Thanks.

keefaz · 05-07-2016, 05:33 AM

How did you mount the partition, tried -o umask=000 option?

aragorn2101 · 05-07-2016, 05:38 AM

Hello,

Welcome to LQ.

How did you mount this partition? Is it an entry in fstab or do you mount it manually using root privileges?

dwnthk · 05-07-2016, 07:02 AM

It was first mounted during the Slackware installation. Then I don't need to do anything when I boot the system, and the directory is there.

Quote:

bash-4.2$ ls -l
total 112
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 5月 23 2009 bin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 5月 4 14:24 boot
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 5600 5月 7 17:20 dev
drwxr-xr-x 97 root root 12288 5月 7 17:36 etc
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 5月 3 22:33 home
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 10月 10 2013 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 5月 3 06:11 lib64
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 5月 3 05:59 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 5月 6 20:45 media
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 9月 26 2006 mnt
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 5月 6 19:59 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 189 root root 0 5月 8 2016 proc
drwx--x--- 21 root root 4096 5月 6 20:04 root
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 140 5月 7 17:20 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 8月 20 2012 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 5月 3 06:11 srv
dr-xr-xr-x 13 root root 0 5月 8 2016 sys
drwxrwxrwt 13 root root 4096 5月 7 19:59 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 5月 7 17:34 usr
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 3月 3 2012 var
drwx------ 1 root root 20480 5月 1 11:28 winfiles

keefaz · 05-07-2016, 07:41 AM

Could you show content of /etc/fstab please (the line with '/winfiles')?

dwnthk · 05-07-2016, 07:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keefaz

Could you show content of /etc/fstab please (the line with '/winfiles')?

Something like this?

Quote:

bash-4.2# cat fstab
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext4 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda2 /winfiles ntfs-3g fmask=177,dmask=077 1 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro,comment=x-gvfs-show 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

That's how I think I should chmod the directory:

Quote:

bash-4.2# ls -l | grep win*
drwx------ 1 root root 20480 5月 1 11:28 winfiles
bash-4.2# chmod 711 winfiles
bash-4.2# ls -l | grep win*
drwx------ 1 root root 20480 5月 1 11:28 winfiles
bash-4.2#

keefaz · 05-07-2016, 08:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dwnthk

Something like this?

That's how I think I should chmod the directory:

Change the fstab line to:

Code:

/dev/sda2        /winfiles       ntfs-3g     fmask=111,dmask=000 1   0

Then as root, umount /winfiles, mount /winfiles

dwnthk · 05-07-2016, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by keefaz

Change the fstab line to:

Code:

/dev/sda2        /winfiles       ntfs-3g     fmask=111,dmask=000 1   0

Then as root, umount /winfiles, mount /winfiles

I don't know what these figures mean. But it works. (I will google fmask and dmask later.)
Thanks. I am appreciated.