On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 08:09:41AM +0100, Bernd S. Brentrup wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 06:43:43PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm fairly new to Linux, and have installed debian woody release 2 with > > the bf24 kernel on my notebook alongside a windows xp ntfs partition > > (which resides on hda1). I enabled ntfs support in the kernel during > > installation, but I'm not sure how to get access to the ntfs partition > > for non-root users. I've done some google searches, and it looks like I > > have to edit the /etc/fstab file, but I'm missing something because I > > still can't access the xp partition. > > Here's the relevant line from my /etc/fstab > > /dev/hda1 /mnt/XP ntfs gid=50,umask=027 0 0 > > resulting in unlimited access for root, read and execute (directory > search) access for members of group staff and blocking other users. >
Only it won't give you unlimited access by root since ntfs partitions are read only ;-) > cf. ntfs section in mount(1). > > HTH > . Siggy >
