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If I plug a USB hard drive into my computer that is using an NTFS filesystem, I get a dialog box saying "Failed to open directory "disk-1". Permission denied." Most of the time with flash drives and the like, I plug it in and it just works (wowee!). But in this case, it's getting its unix on. I haven't messed with the fstab if that's what I have to dink with. What can I do to allow a regular user read and write to NTFS drives via HAL?
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL
Checkout the section "Automount NTFS filesystems with write support (ntfs-3g)". It works fine for me.
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Did you use the policy or the workaround? Thanks for your reply!
Last edited by synthead (2008-02-03 01:22:33)
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I use both the policy rule and the mount.ntfs-3g workaround, as I have many files with greek characters on my removable NTFS volumes- and without the workaround they are invisible (despite the fact that the system default is el_GR.UTF8).
I didn't need to apply the "ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs" workaround, as I had no issues (using a fairly standard kernel26).
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is your user in "storage" group? had same problem and fix it by that
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