I just mounted my Windows hard drives into new directories I named /windows/C and /windows/F, C and F representing their drive names. However, I can't access them unless I logon as root or access it through the console as root. I tried to change the permissions as root but it wouldn't let me. Also, I wasn't able to modify or move the files in the hard drive. Can someone help me?

Also, since I'm here, how do you enable the second track and subtitles for .ogm and .mkv files on MPlayer, specifically this one which has a GUI and is designed specifically for Suse.

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The best way to mount them is using the fstab file, which is located in /etc folder.

You should have a line like this:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windowsC ntfs umask=0022 0 0

This line representing, the primary harddrive hda and it's first partition 1 be mounted on /mnt/windowsC. Stating that the partition is ntfs (or vfat if it is FAT). The umask flags tell it that it wants the mounted partition to have 755 rights, which means, that root can rw and others can read the contents but not change them. Not that the umask values are in octal writing, which means, you have to think of it like 0777-0022=0755. So this gives you the idea if you want all users to be able to write to it, you would put it to 0000 making it 777 rights.

Also you can use this flags, if you are mounting it as root from the command line. Se the man mount pages.

Good luck!

Don't try to modify anything in an NTFS partition from Linux. Microsoft has not released the specifications, so any change made by Linux is only a guess. It's been a while since I've heard people messing up their Windows partitions like this, but neither have I heard that it is suddenly safe.

marghorp:
If it's not too much to ask, what is the formula to transfer permissions values into (so-called) octal. Do you just subtract each digit from 7 or some such nonsense? (and tack an extra 0 on the front)

e.g. mplayer -aid 1 -sid 0 ... for the second audio track, the first subtitle track of file. (the tracks are listed in the output from mplayer when it's run in a terminal.) i've no idea how to switch tracks in the GUI player, though.