Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive

[Rodrigo Agerri <rag@soi.city.ac.uk>]

That remarkable Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 13:29, Doug MacFarlane wrote:

> On 04 Feb 2003, 21:58:58, David Turetsky wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have a hard drive running Windows XP Professional under NTFS format
> > 
> > I'd like to access that drive from my Woody system but I can't locate a
> > suitable file type for an /etc/fstab entry
> 
> ntfs works for me, but I have it mounted RO, and only root has access to
> it.  I haven't fooled around with this yet . . . .
> 
> madmac
> > 

I believe (correct me if I am wrong) that ntfs can *only* be mounted RO, but you can 
give the user access to it. I have this line in my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1	/win	ntfs ro,noauto,user	0	0

and it works without problems

cheers, 

rodrigo