Can't access ntfs driver as a user

shibatatie · 07-15-2004, 02:52 AM

I am new to linux = I suck.

I've just got slack 10 installed on my computer. It automatically found my ntfs partition and mount it during starting up, which is very cool.

However later I found that only root can access to the /ntfs somehow. I've tried to change the fstab, but it didn't work.

This is the line in my fstab:

/dev/hdc6 /ntfs ntfs auto,user,ro 1 0

Could someone tell me what goes wrong?

By the way, which command can copy a entire directory including sub-directories? "cp" doesn't work for sub-directories.

muhkuhmasta · 07-15-2004, 03:03 AM

i think you need to chmod the permissions to your ntfs directory somehow...

and with the right options cp can copy whole directories (refer to the man page).

of course all this info can be wrong for I am a newbie too

keefaz · 07-15-2004, 07:33 AM

I would change the fstab line for ntfs to :
/dev/hdc6 /ntfs ntfs auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0

(note the last 0, it is for not check ntfs partition at boot as fsck does not support ntfs)

SolarBear · 07-15-2004, 08:13 AM

You can use cp -R to copy recursively subforlders. man cp for more details.

Boow · 07-15-2004, 05:57 PM

/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs ro,noauto,user,gid=100,uid=1000,umask=0227 0 0

here's mine type id in console to find your gid uid

shibatatie · 07-15-2004, 10:58 PM

Problem solved! Thanks guys!

This is the one that works 4 me:

/dev/hdc6 /ntfs ntfs auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0

Darkenedes · 07-16-2004, 08:37 PM

How would this work with a FAT32 partition? I keep all of my music and other files on my Windows 98 drive, and I hate logging in as root everytime I want to access them. I'll boot up Linux and post my fstab configuration line later if I need to.

cereal83 · 07-16-2004, 09:44 PM

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Originally posted by shibatatie
Problem solved! Thanks guys!

This is the one that works 4 me:

ntfs auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0

Thanks, That worked for me too. Now I can run wine.

pkid · 07-18-2004, 03:35 PM

I run cp with cp -r (note the lower case r) and I find that for me that moves the entire directory to where I specifiy including subdirectories. I move normal files all the time and so don't need cp to do anything to special files so I don't use -R. Actually a bit faster than moving stuff with nautilus. But note that the man entry for cp goes on that -r should be a synonym for -R etc... So I think I may have misunderstood the difference between the 2 and I am sorry if I have.

blk96gt · 07-18-2004, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Darkenedes
How would this work with a FAT32 partition? I keep all of my music and other files on my Windows 98 drive, and I hate logging in as root everytime I want to access them. I'll boot up Linux and post my fstab configuration line later if I need to.

You would just change the ntfs part to vfat, like this:
/dev/hdc6 /mnt/hd vfat auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0
If you wanted to have write access, just change the umask option to umask=0000.

cereal83 · 07-19-2004, 09:22 AM

ok well I had to reinstall slack and now I can't get access to my win partition and I have

Quote:

/dev/hda2 /win ntfs auto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0

whats wrong with this, like why can't I see it as root or a user?