Re: How to mount and access ntfs partition as regular user
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 06:36:57PM +0100, Bernd S. Brentrup wrote:
> 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:
>
IIRC it only has write support as long as you are overwriting already
existing files and you are not changing their size, unless very happily
it moved along since last time I checked.
> % zgrep NTFS /proc/config.gz
> CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
> CONFIG_NTFS_DEBUG=y
> CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
>
> Thanks
> Siggy
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