I have a completely full 60 gig secondary hard disk formatted with NTFS. Root has no problem playing my music and movies from it, but I'm not allowed to access it under usr. Is there a way to change this or am I going to have to burn everything off on dvd's and reformat?

You can use the umask option when mounting the partition so that everyone can access it. For example:

It says permission is denied. finally got my wireless working though!!

Were you using the root account when modifying /etc/fstab and mounting the partition? (That's good news about the wireless...)

I'm always in root, I have to be if I want to listen to any music. Probably not the smartest thing, but i can always reinstall if I screw something up.

Can you post the command you used when the permission denied error happened? If it was while editing /etc/fstab (and you were root), then you may need to run chattr -V -i /etc/fstab

actually it turns out you were right, I didn't really know enough a the time to go into fstab, I'm learning more every day though.. thanks man I can get out of root now.

Hi Rayning + gilead,

I hope you dont mind me butting into this thread but it kind of covers some of what am after..

I have a ntfs drive which i successfully got mounted at my initial install.. The trouble is I screwed it up by trying to change the owner to myself rather than root, now and i cant access it as its read only..


Any help on resolving this issue is much appreciated..

thanks in advance, deft

Thanks i got it sorted

I guess i should have tried it before i posted, oops.

Anyway i just edited fstab with the info above, umounted then mounted it and hey presto it works. Though i can only copy from it but still cant delete data from it

thanks for the useful advice

NTFS support under Linux is still read-only. This is because the API hasn't been released by Microsoft, so the Linux NTFS drivers had to be reverse engineered.

If you want write support, you should use FAT32 for your Windows partitions. Otherwise you can try this out: Captive NTFS

thanks i will give it a go

is NTFS (read only) support build into slackware 11 Huge (??) 2.6.17.3 precompiled kernel?

From the config file for that kernel:

Hi again..

I have another question regarding my ntfs hard drive..

What do i add to lilo.conf to make it bootable..? I have took a look at the file and i have an idea what i must do, then i got the horror scenario that i reboot only to find that i had screwed up my lilo altogether.

So i am doing the proper thing and seeking advice first : /

Here is how my lilo.conf looks at the moment:

# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda2
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda1
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends


Thanks in advance.

deft