Hi,

I've been trying to open ntfs-partitions while beeing a normal user, but it doesn't work. I can only open them as root. can somebody help me out?

It are the partitions win_c and win_d that I want to read as normal user

Here under you find my fstab and mtab and what i tried

I also changed my mtab and fstab, but mdk9.2 changes it always back. How can I avoid this?

thanks
klaas

[root@localhost mnt]# ls -l
total 12
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 23 12:47 cdrom/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 23 12:47 cdrom2/
drwxrwxrwx 0 root root 0 Dec 23 12:47 floppy/
dr-x------ 1 root root 8192 Dec 16 20:26 win_c/
dr-x------ 1 root root 4096 Dec 20 10:51 win_d/
[root@localhost mnt]# chmod 444 win*
chmod: changing permissions of `win_c': Read-only file system
chmod: changing permissions of `win_d': Read-only file system
[root@localhost mnt]# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/win_c ntfs user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs user,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
[root@localhost mnt]# cat /etc/mtab
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
none /dev devfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount ro,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4 /mnt/win_c ntfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 /mnt/win_d ntfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

afaik vfat options aplys to ntfs too, so use the umask option, e.g mine fstab :

/dev/hda2 /mnt/winxp vfat iocharset=iso8859-7,codepage=869,uid=501,gid=501,umask=002,shortname=mixed,owner 0 0

i don't know how much different mounting ntfs is from mounting FAT32... but to mount a FAT32 can't you just do this

/dev/hda2 /path/to/desired/directory vfat umask=000 0 0

you're /dev/hda will have to change according to what partition you're mounting. i don't understand what all that other stuff is..

iocharset=iso8859-7,codepage=869,uid=501,gid=501,umask=002,shortname=mixed,owner 0 0


but what i typed above works for FAT32...

For NTFS as an ordinary user add these options to the 4th field of the relevant /etc/fstab entries

umask=0222,auto,ro

for example

dev/hda4 /mnt/win_c ntfs iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0222,auto,ro 0 0

this worked, thanks