[solved] can't access mounted ntfs partition

bagheera · 2011-06-06 16:55:00

ntfs partition is being mounted during boot time by fstab:

/dev/sda1               /media/seven auto       users,rw        0       0

i can also mount/umount it manually, but only root can access /media/seven.
Why is that? What's wrong?

my user is in following groups:

adm disk wheel log network video audio optical storage camera users vboxusers

bagheera@tux:~$ ls -al /media                                                                                                                            
razem 20                                                                                                                                                     
drwxr-xr-x  5 root     root  4096 06-06 17:57 .                                                                                                              
drwxr-xr-x 23 root     root  4096 05-04 21:04 ..                                                                                                             
dr-x------  1 bagheera users 4096 06-06 15:46 EDGE                                                                                                           
drwxrwxrwx  2 root     root  4096 05-25 23:34 seven                                                                                                          
drwxr-xr-x  2 root     root  4096 04-28 20:59 usb

Last edited by bagheera (2011-06-07 15:34:49)

I'mGeorge · 2011-06-06 17:04:22

a NTFS partition, as an entry for fstab should look like this

/dev/sda1    /mounting_point    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8    0    0

By the way if it's NTFS you should also install ntfs-3g if you didn't done it already

sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g

All the best

Last edited by I'mGeorge (2011-06-06 17:07:07)

perbh · 2011-06-06 17:52:29

I'mGeorge wrote:

a NTFS partition, as an entry for fstab should look like this
/dev/sda1    /mounting_point    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8    0    0
By the way if it's NTFS you should also install ntfs-3g if you didn't done it already
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g
All the best

Hmmm - should there not also be a 'umask=000' and possibly also 'uid=0,gid=0' in the stanza?
That's how I have always done it in the past - but hey - things change ....

I'mGeorge · 2011-06-06 18:06:31

perbh wrote:

I'mGeorge wrote:
a NTFS partition, as an entry for fstab should look like this
/dev/sda1    /mounting_point    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8    0    0
By the way if it's NTFS you should also install ntfs-3g if you didn't done it already
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g
All the best
Hmmm - should there not also be a 'umask=000' and possibly also 'uid=0,gid=0' in the stanza?
That's how I have always done it in the past - but hey - things change ....

It's included in the option defaults. Actually if you don't have any particular preferences in the option section you can just leave defaults

roygbiv · 2011-06-06 19:51:01

you can get write permissions by having members of a group (gid) or a user (uid) have ownership of files on the partition. you may also want to set the umask to give correct file and directory permissions to user, group and others.

an example:

/dev/sda1/       /media/seven    ntfs    gid=100,umask=007,rw      0    0

# or 

/dev/sda1/       /media/seven    ntfs    uid=1000,umask=007,rw    0    0

you should try poking around on the wiki man. by the way you don't have to specify 'ntfs-3g' in /etc/fstab as 'ntfs' is symlinked with it - not really important though.

Last edited by roygbiv (2011-06-06 19:51:55)

Mr.Elendig · 2011-06-06 19:53:41

use ntfs-3g instead of ntfs

roygbiv · 2011-06-06 19:59:37

I'mGeorge wrote:

perbh wrote:
I'mGeorge wrote:
a NTFS partition, as an entry for fstab should look like this
/dev/sda1    /mounting_point    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8    0    0
By the way if it's NTFS you should also install ntfs-3g if you didn't done it already
sudo pacman -S ntfs-3g
All the best
Hmmm - should there not also be a 'umask=000' and possibly also 'uid=0,gid=0' in the stanza?
That's how I have always done it in the past - but hey - things change ....
It's included in the option defaults. Actually if you don't have any particular preferences in the option section you can just leave defaults

the 'locale' option is deprecated if you don't mind. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs.

I'mGeorge · 2011-06-06 21:18:58

roygbiv wrote:

the 'locale' option is deprecated if you don't mind. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ntfs.

I don't mind, thanks for the update

Shashwat · 2011-06-07 12:54:11

On a quick not try mounting the disk by UUID rather than by mount point name. You can run into trouble with multiple disks https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pe … ice_naming

bagheera · 2011-06-07 15:34:13

Done. Arch wiki ftw! I should read it in the first place. Thanks anyway.

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