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sonay

Member

Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 75

Automount issue

I have a separate partition for my data(music, video etc.) which is NTFS and labeled D to be available to Windows. For convenience I added the following line to /etc/fstab

LABEL=D /media/disk ntfs defaults 0 2

and it is mounted on boot. The problem is, when I cd from Konsole or via Dolphin I get permission errors. So I used

sudo chown -hR sonay /media/disk/ 

Now I can see my files, but can't operate on them such as play music, delete that and that... What am I doing wrong?

By the way, I am using KDE 4.6 and consolekit complained about "/var/dbus/system-socket(or something like that): no file or directory" at my last login. Is it related? What do you think?

SteveK

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Registered: 2010-06-11

Posts: 80

Re: Automount issue

Take a look at ntfs-3g in the wiki.

sonay

Member

Registered: 2010-03-09

Posts: 75

Re: Automount issue

I am using /etc/inittab method to start X, is it somehow related? Coincidentally, I stumbled here at the wiki:

"/etc/inittab

Warning: This method will not use /bin/login or register your session, therefore no session will appear in `who` or `w`. Your session will also not be authorized as 'local' by consolekit, so you will be unable to shutdown/suspend/reboot or mount drives without using sudo or su."

source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Start_X_at_boot

I am also using quick-init from AUR.

All those work perfectly fine on my netbook but not on my desktop.

unilx

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From: Fredericton,Canada

Registered: 2009-10-01

Posts: 183

Re: Automount issue

like stevek said,install ntfs-3g. my storage drives are set up like this in fstab:

LABEL=SEAGATE /mnt/SEAGATE    ntfs-3g   defaults   0 0
LABEL=W-7     /mnt/W-7        ntfs-3g   defaults   0 0

Last edited by unilx (2011-02-12 01:51:54)