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I'm trying to mount my NTFS windows drive rw and it won't let me, plus it would only allow root to read (i want at least myself to be able to read it)
I have kernel gentoo-dev-2.6.10-r4, with ntfs write support compiled into the kernel.
my fstab file:
Code:
atom@saturn / $ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda2 /boot ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda5 / reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/sda6 /home reiserfs noatime 0 1
/dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sda7 /mnt/win1 ntfs noatime,users,rw,umask=0000 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb /mnt/cdrom/ auto noauto,user 0 0
# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
# Adding the following line to /etc/fstab should take care of this:
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
excuse me but how does this help me? I just need some settings configured! Thanks for the link but i can't have two kernels running at once, so that does not really solve my problem .
NTFS support in Linux kernel is not as good as you would like. And this URL gives a link to an alternate driver called "captive". You could try to use it...
To read ntfs, add this in fstab: umask=000. this'll make it accessible for all users (earlier I was asking the same question)
E.g.: /dev/hda1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs umask=000 1 0
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AFAIK, you can only overwrite existing files (with no changing its lengths (?)) on NTFS
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Additional few info is available when you recompile kernel. I.e. you go to /usr/src/linux. type 'make mrproper'. type 'make menuconfig' or (if u're in gui) 'make xconfig'. You'll have to choose what you need in your kernel. And while this "choosing", "help" on what you choose is avilable. It describes what u choose. U may underst&...
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