Hi. I'm trying to set up MythTV. When I set up my system, I have 1 drive being shared by Windows and Linux. I have a seperate 300 gig drive formatted as NTFS for recordings.

I have it mounted at /mnt/storage

I tried to do chown don:don storage (as root)

It seems to run, but the owner doesn't change. I also made a directory on the drive called store.... i.e. /mnt/storage/store and then chown on that, and the owner doesn't change.

I tried to do a chmod also, and I can't get write privileges. I need write privileges so MythTV can write to the drive.

Is it because it's an NTFS partition?


Any help would be great... thanks.

Don't know but could it be the way it's mounted - the instructions for how to mount it in /etc/fstab?? Ownership of file system uid gid mode exec etc..

Dude, you need to install latest ntfs drivers. Try this command :
yum install ntfs-3g
After finishing installation use the following commands :

ntfs-3g <device> <mount point>

e.g.
ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/storage

Oh jeez yeah. Thanks, forgot to mention that.

I have ntfs-3g installed (root wrote to the drive, no problem.)

The line from fstab is:


/dev/sdb5 /mnt/storage ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0222 0 0

and ls -al from the /mnt directory looks like:


[don@localhost mnt]$ ls -al
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-10-28 21:12 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4096 2007-10-29 11:14 ..
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 8192 2007-10-29 11:10 ntfs
dr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 4096 2007-10-29 10:34 storage

I just want to change the owner of give users write privileges... either way, doesn't matter to me.

thanks

/etc/fstab entry :

/dev/sdb5 /mnt/storage ntfs-3g rw,uid=1000 0 0

Above entry will mount /dev/sdb5 to /mnt/storage and make user with uid 1000 to be the owner of all files.

That did the trick... thanks very much.

Now on to getting my remote working. Should be lots of head banging squishy fun.