Re: Problem accessing external usb drive in non superuser mode

[Bryce <bryce.s@roadrunner.com>]

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
>>
>> What does 'ls -l /mnt/maxtor' show?
> 
> 
> It also shows:
> 
> ls: cannot open directory /mnt/maxtor/: Permission denied
> 
> 
>> > I tried changing the owner but I see the following:
>> >
>> > $:sudo chown divkis01 /mnt/maxtor/
>> > chown: changing ownership of `/mnt/maxtor/': Read-only file system
>>
>> Well, it's apparently mounted read-only.  What does 'mount | grep
>> maxtor' show?  What is the exact command you're using to mount the disk?
> 
> 
> $: mount | grep maxtor
> /dev/sda1 on /mnt/maxtor type ntfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=divkis01)
> 
> I had posted that earlier as well. MY fstab looks something like this:
> 
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/maxtor     ntfs    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> and then I just do mount /mnt/maxtor
> 
> Thanks,
> Divick

Change your fstab entry to this:
/dev/sda1   /mnt/maxtor   ro,user,noauto,dmask=0022,fmask=0133,nls=utf8  0 0

... works for me!