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fstab trouble
Name: webpoet Date: October 24, 2004 at 15:22:46 Pacific OS: Suse 9.1 CPU/Ram: XP 3000+ / 1.5 GB
Comment:
I use 5 different hard drives, so when I installed Suse I went to change fstab to recogonize them all. An example:
/dev/hdd1 /media/music ntfs rw,user 0 1
Two things happen. If I log in as a user, the folders have locks on them. I log into root and I have access to them, but I can only read the drives, I can't write or delete. If I try to change the permissions it says I don't have enough, even as root.
Name: C_Legend Date: October 24, 2004 at 20:36:44 Pacific
Reply:
I believe that "write" support for NTFS is a relatively new thing (and possibly still somewhat experimental), so I wouldn't expect SUSE 9.1 (not the newest) to be able to do it. Read up on SUSE 9.2 and look for NTFS support. Who knows? Maybe there's a patch you can apply to your distro to give you what you want.
Good luck.
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Response Number 2
Name: 3Dave Date: October 27, 2004 at 06:19:03 Pacific
Reply:
C_Legend is correct about NTFS support under GNU/Linux, the best/safest way would be to use captive (www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/)
You can give full access to all users by using the umask option, eg: /dev/hdd1 /media/music ntfs rw,user,umask=0 0 1 Currently this will probably give all your users read/execute access but it sounds like your kernel doesn't support NTFS writing, again have a look at captive.
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