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Even though the drives themselves are read only, how to I add permission for normal user to read the drive? It seems to be mounted, but when i double click it says "You do not have enough permission to read file:/mnt/hda1. or same thing for sda1.
Is there any way i could change these permissions without restarting? If I unmount and mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 would that mount with these new permissions?
cool. It worked when i rebooted but it didn't work when I put that command into a shell as root. I wasn't 100% clear on what I was supposed to do there so I tried
mount -a
which didn't appear to do anything but give me a help readout, I assume for some incorrect usage somewhere and
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs user,ro,dev,exec,suid,defaults,unmask=0222 0 0
did the same thing I think. Well never the less, rebooting did the trick and now I can access those drives!
Well never the less, rebooting did the trick and now I can access those drives!
Glad to be of help
remember, the mount command from the command line uses a different "syntax" to the corresponding entry in /etc/fstab - that's why using what is essentially an fstab entry for a temporary mount via ther comamnd line will cause errors etc.
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