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Re: fstab entry for NTFS formatted drive



On 05 Feb 2003, 13:53:27, Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
> 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 . . . .
> 
> 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

Thanks Rodrigo.  

I was recompiling my Kernel this morning and saw that there is an NTFS module
that supports RW, with the notation (Experimental and VERY DANGEROUS) . .
. 

I may give that a shot this weekend.

madmac

-- 
Doug MacFarlane
madmac@covad.net



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