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I have a problem thats about user rights to the NTFS filesystem. I want no acces the NTFS system as $user and not as #root but when i try to change the user right and ownership (chmod and chown) of the folder (eks. /mnt/c/(NTFS-filsystem) i get the message that the filesystem is Writeprotected.. I know that it`s bad to write to a ntfs system but i onely want to read from the filesystem as $user so i eks. dont have to start the consol and swich user and then start xmms from the consol as #root to listen to my mp3`s from the NTFS system.. *puh*
Add this to your /etc/fstab where your ntfs is mounted in the fourth field from the left: ro,umask=000
This mounts the fs in read-only mode. The umask means that ordinary users can read the information on the partition. The next time you reboot, the changes should take effect.
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