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Im having trouble getting Slackware to let normal user accounts access my NTFS partition. Root can access fine, but thats not incredibly practical for everyday usage since id be more or less opening files from my NTFS partition the whole time im using the computer.
Add the proper entry to /etc/fstab . That's what this thread is all about. Here's a copy of my entire /etc/fstab file. Maybe it will give you an idea. I would help more, but you didn't give any information about what you were trying to mount. Anyways, here's my /etc/fstab file:
As you're reading through this file, note that "#" means "ignore this line", and also note that any of my users can mount any of the devices that they wish. (Big hint: "user")
Originally posted by shilo I reboot for just about everything. It's a bad habit you pick up when your first computer is Windows ME.
LoL Tell me about it...
* Changed your IP address? Reboot.
* Installed a prog? Reboot.
* Up more than a week? Reboot.
* Changed the wallpaper? Reboot --- uh... not sure about this one
Dude, if you had Windows ME running for a whole week before having to reboot, you might just be my new computer hero. I made a habit of rebooting that thing every day!!!
you need to add the 'user' option like you did with the CD drive. 'umask' determines who can read the files on the partition <--> 'user' determines who can mount the partition. Those are two very different things...
I think UDF is only found on some very recent DVD's... 99,...% of all CDROMs and DVDroms use iso9660. BTW, if in doubt you can always set the filesytem type for /dev/cdrom to 'auto', then the kernel will auto-detect the type.
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