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Re: Gnome requests password to mount NTFS drive



On Sat, 30 Oct 2010 09:25:13 -0400, Rob Owens wrote:

> On a fresh Squeeze system, Gnome is asking for the root password when
> mounting an NTFS drive (/dev/sda1, which houses Windows OS).  ntfs-3g is
> installed, but is not being used for some reason.

(...)

How are you mounting the NTFS volume, at boot time by using and entry in 
"/etc/fstab" or manually running the "mount" command?

OTOH, "ntfs-3g" should be used if writing capabilities are required for  
NTFS volume.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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