Re: forks, derivatives, other distros - what are you thinking/doing
On Sun, 09 Nov 2014 14:22:46 +0200, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Du, 09 nov 14, 04:05:56, Hendrik Boom wrote:
>>
>> I've started to have trouble mounting the NTFS partition on my machine
>> from Linux. No problem doing this in Windows, of course. I used to be
>> able to mount it from the file manager after entering the root
>> password. Starting a month or so ago, the file manager would
>> tantalizingly show me the partition but refuse to let me mount it
>> because I didn't have the proveleges.
>
> I can't comment on this since you didn't mention which file manager.
It's the file manager provided by xfce. I don't know which one that is.
Ah... When I started it just now, before the window title said "File
Manager", for a brief moment it said "Thunar".
I wish all desktops had systematic, transparent, naive-user-accessible
ways of identifying what packages or programs are invoked by menu items.
>
>> Finally, it stopped even showing me that partition. Of course I can
>> still log in as root and mount it from the command line, copy any files
>> from it, and chown them to myself. But it is unnecessarily awkward.
>
> If this is not a removable drive you might want to use something like
> this in your fstab:
>
> /dev/sdaX /media/ntfs ntfs-3g
> uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=113,dmask=002
Works for me. But just for me. But there are several /dev/sd* that
might be involved (being dynamically assigned and all), several file
system (but setting the file system to auto might work), and several
users.
Still, it would help.
-- hendrik
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