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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.

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.



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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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