On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:39:26AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > 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)
See if you have read/execute permission for /mnt/maxtor. You could try to mount it to a directory owned by you...create an empty directory under your /home/divkis01 (assuming your user name is divkis01). Also change your fstab to point to the new mount point. -- Alexander J.M. Linux 2.6.26-1-686 i686 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
