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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/m3nrrr$cit$1...@ger.gmane.org
