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Hi Guru's
I'm a new Arch user migrating from Ubuntu.
I have one hard drive partitioned as follows:
SDA1 NTFS
SDA2 / ext3
SDA3 / swap
SDA4 NTFS
I also have a semi permanent USB Hard Drive and various other USB devices which seem to be mounting fine under autofs. When / if, I solve my fstab problem, I will look into Udev to give these devices static names.
My problem is that no matter what I try, I cannot make the two NTFS drives accessible by a normal user (me). The following is from my current fstab file:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs rw,user,auto,uid=1000,gid=100,sync,umask=000 # my uid and the users group
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 ntfs rw,user,auto,uid=1000,gid=100,sync,umask=000
This is one of dozens of combinations I have tried based on research and "RTFM". I just keep getting more confused. The directory entries show me as the owner, rw permissions and belonging to the user group, the only problem is that I can not write to those partitions as a normal user.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Any suggestions for links that tie in how fstab, autofs, udev and hal work together. I have seen links on all of them, but would like to see a brief overview on how they work together. As you can see, I'm one of those linux noobs.
Thanks
Larry
Last edited by ljshap (2008-05-27 11:04:44)
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Hi ljshap,
see this page:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support
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Hi luca,
Thanks for the link. I made the following changes:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g users,noauto,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_PH.utf8 0 0
/dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0113,dmask=0002,locale=en_PH.utf8 0 0
Except for the locale, its working great. I still have to mount sda1 as root, which is probably a good idea for the other OSes partition. If I change it to auto it does mount automatically but thats flirting with danger
On to Udev
Thanks Again
Larry
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