Re: Debian Setup Accessing NTFS

From: Michael C. (mcsuper5_at_usol.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:15:02 -0500

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:11:52 GMT,
Lionel Hanners <dark@munx.net> wrote:
> ok i will admit im a bit of a linux newb but i have played with knoppix
> for about a year now and i finally decided to set up a machine with
> actual debian on it so i downloaded the latest testing distro(14CDS,
> Whew) and installed them...i got it all running and i got gnome up and
> 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
> i did this so far
>
> su
> ******** <- my password not actual length so dont try anything
> mkdir /mnt/hdb1
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
>
> 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
> i dont have permission to the folder...what am i doing wrong??? please
> help me.

$grep ntfs /etc/fstab

/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs ro,gid=disk,noexec,umask=027 0 0

Substitute hdb1 for hda5, umask might as well be 0227, if you
don't have writing to ntfs compiled into the kernel the "ro" is
unnecessary. Make sure you add users that should have access to
group "disk" or the appropriate group.

If you don't want the partition to mounted by default on booting
add the "noauto" option.

I have Debian 3.0r2, writing to ntfs was still considered risky
and I'd assume you'd have to recompile the kernel to get write
access. I assume there is still no write access by default (the
last I'd checked, writing was still risky and running
chkdsk/scandisk was required after any any writes.)

man mount, and man fstab have lots of useful information.

Michael C. 

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