That's a good idea. I should probably add noauto to the partition with XP on it. I don't think I have ever accessed that partition in Linux. Wouldn't hurt.

Thanks!

EDIT: Every time someone posts their fstab, I read it, and it makes sense why it would work. I'm not sure why some don't work for me. Is it a group thing maybe. I only have root and userx. No groups set up or anything like that. I'm not very knowledgeable about that, so maybe it doesn't matter.

Could be. I have a group called users. I don't recall ever creating this group. I think that group is one of those default group settings packaged with every 'nix environment.

It matters. You might want to investigate your groups config files. If you are using KDE use the kuser utility. Very nice. Otherwise use a basic text editor. Or if necessary, restore the files from the original Slack packages, but reinstall them with a different name so you can compare files. If you are using KDE, the kompare utility is nice to help compare files.

I checked out kuser. One of those programs that I've just never checked out. I see what you're talking about. The one user I have has a UID of 1000 and the users group has a GID of 100. This has always been a little confusing to me. I will read up on it and maybe gain a better insight.

Thanks!

I second Woodsman's assesment. I always had the group users and my users were members by default. The UID was in the 500s some years ago and was moved up to 1000 just lately. Please share your solution on this .

I just meant to say that I hadn't changed anything. Yes, I have the group users as well.

I only brought the subject on groups up, because I kept seeing users added to several posted fstabs. A quick man fstab didn't give me much, but pointed me to man mount. It reads:

If any user should be able to unmount, then use users instead of user in the fstab line.

The group option is similar, with the restriction that the user must be member of the group of the special file.

This led me to believe that users in the fstab, is actually the group users. I didn't remember adding my user to this group, so when I got it to work with:

/dev/hde5 /mnt/hde5 ntfs auto,ro,umask=000 1 0

I was a little confused. I was trying to figure out why it worked. It never crossed my mind that a user might be part of a group by default.