On Sat,28.Mar.09, 00:52:58, Divick Kishore wrote: > Hi, > I have an external hard disk connected through usb, which though I am > able to mount, but I am unable to access the drive without superuser > privileges. Running mount command shows the following: > > /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01) > > But when I try to access I see the following: > > $: ls /mnt/maxtor/ > ls: cannot open directory /mnt/maxtor/: Permission denied The 'user' option means that a user can *mount* that filesystem. You probably want the 'uid=divkis01'. See 'man mount', the section "Mount options for ntfs". Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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