Vivek Sahukar wrote: > I have debian 5.0 lenny installed on my laptop; with windows xp service > pack 2 installed in separate partitions of hard drive.my flash drive (vfat > filesystem) is automatically mounted when it's plugged into usb port. > But my external hard drive and windows partition drive (both ntfs > filesystem) are not automatically mounted; though they are detected. (It > shows "error while mounting") > When I try to give the mount point and filesystem entries by entering into > properties section it says "cannot obtain lock on media.h-mtab." > > So, I entered as super user through command line and mounted the drives > from there by giving command "mount -t ntfs <device> <mount point>". > I also changed the file permissions by giving command "chmod -R 777 <drive > path>" > I am able to access it through command line; but through graphical > environment it says that "the contents of the folder cannot be displayed, > because you don't have permissions". > > Please let me know how to access my drives through graphical desktop > environment, as it's easy to navigate. > > Regards, > > Vivek Sahukar
Include these options in the mount ntfs types in your fstab: dmask=0022,fmask=0133 You need ntfs-3g only if you need write access to the partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
