Mounting WinXP partition

Recirqie · 10-13-2004, 04:08 AM

Hi, I have a triple boot PC which includes SuSE 9.0 and Win XP. I can mount the ntfs as root, and read the contents as root. I can even "mount" as an ordinary user, but the directory is empty. I can go to "Properties" and get at Permissions as root, but when I try to change them the system reports that I cannot change them, even though I am root in that instance. I can also open a file as root, but I cannot copy it to the user desktop , the file is reported as non-existent even though I'm looking at it!

Wot to do???

UsualTuxpect · 10-13-2004, 04:16 AM

you will have to edit the /etc/fstab file to allow other users to use the partition..

Recirqie · 10-13-2004, 05:38 AM

This is what it currently contains:
"/dev/hda1 /dosc ntfs user,noauto,rw 0 0"

I have tried other combinations as well, but to no avail. What should it look like?

UsualTuxpect · 10-13-2004, 12:39 PM

try the following

/dev/hda1 /dosc ntfs ro,umask=000 1 0

[ie. if u wanna mount with read only permissions.....]

/dev/hda1 /dosc ntfs rw,umask=000 1 0

[if u wanna mount with read-write permissions.....]

Recirqie · 10-14-2004, 02:40 AM

Bingo! Thanks a lot.

Incidentally, I found a small program on the net that defines the partition as "captive-ntfs" _(http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive) which achieves the goal, although I gather it was intended for those whose kernel didn't support what you have posted.