From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bryan Simmons Subject: Accessing NTFS partition Date: 02 Oct 2002 14:57:54 -0400 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1033585076.18809.57.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-tnDt1p5PjGTD6xFbB5O4" Return-path: List-Id: To: linux-newbie --=-tnDt1p5PjGTD6xFbB5O4 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Here's the situation, as detailed as I can think to present it. 1. I have 2 hard drives. They look as follows: /dev/hda / (windows partition: fat32)4GB / (linux partition: ext2)4GB / (linux swap) 1GB/ /dev/hdb / (linux partition: ext2)5GB / (windows partition: ntfs) 15GB / 2. I can mount everything with no problem and change rights to everything no problem except for the last partition on the second drive. This is because it is ntfs and should only be mounted READ ONLY. See /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab entries for this drive below: /etc/fsab: /dev/hdb5 /mnt/ibm2 ntfs user,ro 0 0 /etc/mtab /dev/hdb5 /mnt/ibm2 ntfs ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 3. Documentation suggests that changing ownership of the folder that this drive is mounted under will allow that user access to the contents of the drive. So the owner is bsimmo1 and the group is bsimmo1. Yet bsimmo1 cannot access the drive. 4. The problem seems to be the fact that I cannot write entries to the ntfs volume. This is because the drivers are not yet mature enough to allow "safe" writes to the file system. =20 Can anyone suggest a way that I can use my ordinary, non-root, account to read files from this volume? My only alternative is to burn the drive to CD (God forbid) and format it with ext2 fs. --=20 Regards, Bryan Simmons=20 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D=20 "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being=20 run by smart people who are putting us on or=20 by imbeciles who really mean it".=20 ---Mark Twain=20 =3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D= -=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D-=3D=20 --=-tnDt1p5PjGTD6xFbB5O4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQA9m0Gy0dAWZ6zmr0ARAhtXAJwNl/TS1VOA6aqrfFZtPXQJ1m6JggCgj+cd 5seHmegMiU+h6i8SO5RNs5E= =YBV8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-tnDt1p5PjGTD6xFbB5O4-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs