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Re: How to mount and access ntfs partition as regular user



On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:15:33PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:09:41AM +0100, Bernd S. Brentrup wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:43:43PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I'm fairly new to Linux, and have installed debian woody release 2 with 
> > > the bf24 kernel on my notebook alongside a windows xp ntfs partition 
[...]
> > Here's the relevant line from my /etc/fstab
> > 
> > /dev/hda1	/mnt/XP	ntfs	gid=50,umask=027	0 0
> > 
> > resulting in unlimited access for root, read and execute (directory
> > search) access for members of group staff and blocking other users.
> 
> Only it won't give you unlimited access by root since ntfs partitions
> are read only ;-)

Nitpicking:
You're right in that the OP mentioned bf24 kerneli (which I overlooked).
But I'm running 2.6.1 which has NTFS write support:

% zgrep NTFS /proc/config.gz
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y

Thanks
  Siggy

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