I have Slackware 9.1 up and running, kernel has been recompiled for Athlon arch, NTFS read support, 4gb memory support (1.5gb installed), and 4 channel sound. I want to add my 160gb windows XP ntfs partition to /mnt/ntfs for read-only access, followed some instructions from other sites I found, but it doesn't seem to work, may be I have wrong "umask=000"?

my fstab:

/dev/hdf1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hde1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hde2 /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf2 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 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

I tried adding the line : /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0

#mount -a returned error: [mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems


#fdisk -l shows these hard drives, I need to get my /dev/hda1 mapped to /mnt/ntfs

Disk /dev/hde: 30.7 GB, 30735581184 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3736 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hde1 * 1 1216 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/hde2 1217 3736 20241900 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdf: 46.1 GB, 46103371776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5605 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdf1 * 1 124 995998+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdf2 125 5605 44026132+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 19456 156280288+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

Please try this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs users,ro,umask=0222 0 0

try umask=0222

I gotta learn to type faster....

/dev/hdf1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hde1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hde2 /usr/local ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdf2 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 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
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs users,ro,unmask=0222 0 0

root@linux:/# mount -a
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1,
or too many mounted file systems

Nope, that sure didn't work either, same error.

maybe "user" instead of "users"...it's the only thing that looks off to me

changed to user, same error. Also can I in this file change permissions for my cdrom devices /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdd so that any user can mount them. I have made shortcuts on KDE to both cdroms but tells me only root can mount them.

yes.
I've got unhide,ro,noauto,user,exec as /dev/cdrom options, and users can mount it.

Ok, thank you... that got my cdroms to mount as a user. Now I just need this NTFS partition readable

maybe if you add "auto" to the entry...perhaps it's using the default "noauto" and therefore won't automatically mount it when you boot


I'm just making guesses at this point....it's Christmassy beer time....

root@linux:/home/noah# mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs
root@linux:/home/noah# cd /mnt/ntfs
root@linux:/mnt/ntfs# ls
ATI MSOCache RECYCLER ntldr
Documents and Settings NTDETECT.COM System Volume Information pagefile.sys
Drivers Perl WINDOWS
Files Program Files WUTemp
IntelPRO Programs boot.ini


Okay, nm... i mounted it manually and it works now, just would not come up with the mount -a command.

Budious,
I noticed you have unmask=0222 instead of umask=0222.

Ok, thanks for noticing that, my bad. Must have been a typo... too much christmas turkey, well now everything seems to work, guess I'll go doze off. Thanks for all the help.