Re: Debian Setup Accessing NTFS

From: Peter T. Breuer (ptb_at_lab.it.uc3m.es)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 04:38:34 +0100

Lionel Hanners <dark@munx.net> wrote:
> going but i have a problem i cant figure out how to mount my NTFS
> partition with my music and videos on it so i can watch them in linux

And what happened to compiling and loading an ntfs kernel module, then
mounting the partition? Oh ...

> i did this so far
>
> su
> ******** <- my password not actual length so dont try anything
> mkdir /mnt/hdb1
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1

Fine. And what happens? (please use sudo, not su .. but never mind).

> so it mounts then i go into it in the shell window and it works..then i
> go back to natulis (SP?) and i try to navigate to the folder and it says

What's "nautilus"? (you have a dictionary?). Isn't that a gnomish file
manager? You realize that you are not root in it?

> i dont have permission to the folder...what am i doing wrong??? please

Then give yourself permission. What's your problem?

> help me.

You are doing nothing wrong. You do not need help. All is as it should
be and as you stated it should be, I think. If you want to give
ordinary users permission to graze through your msdos partition, then
you will have to add appropriate options to the mount call! Man mount.
Look for gid= or uid= or umask=.

So what's the problem? You said that you don't have permission to go
there, so why not give yurself the permission? You are root, no? Root
can do anything.

Ah, but there's the rub - does he KNOW how to do everything?

Apparently not. Nor where to look. Nor how to think about where to
look.

Peter

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