Finally switched to Linux

oscarBravo

Been talking about it long enough, so I finally wiped Windoze off my hard drive, and installed Debian Sid. Shaky start, but getting there: almost all my Linux experience to date has been with servers, so this X stuff is bogging me down.

I'm going to have youse driven daft over the next few days!

I'm used to sshing into my servers and using su to do pretty much whatever I need to do, so I have to force myself to get used to working in userland. Few questions:

I still have an NTFS-formatted drive with shedloads of stuff I need to access. I have been able to mount it successfully (read-only, which is fine for now), but permissions are a problem. My oridnary user can't get even read permissions. /etc/fstab is set up so that I can mount it, but I still can't read it except as root.

Similarly, how do I set up the CD so that an ordinary user can access it (say, to play a CD)?

I'll have lots more, I'm sure!

Typedef

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Linux/Q_20582901.html

nadir

used chmod to change permissions.
like chmod -R 744 /mnt/windows

but NTFS sucks. if possible use fat, cause u cant write to ntfs. I got the same prob myself, its a bitch when ur trying to run wine, and progs cant write to the correct drive.

ssh

chmod doesn't exactly work in that manner for non-unixy file systems.

Basically, I have a line in my /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs auto,uid=mynormaluser 0 0

Where mynormaluser is my day to day account.

This mounts the partition so that I can read the whole thing.

oscarBravo

Originally posted by ssh
Basically, I have a line in my /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/nt ntfs auto,uid=mynormaluser 0 0

That's pretty much what I've got now - thanks to Typedef for the link.

Originally posted by nadir
if possible use fat, cause u cant write to ntfs.

I can't at the moment. I have two hard drives in this PC, one of which has (among other things) my CD collection backup in ogg format. It seemed like a good idea way back when to have that disk NTFS formatted, but there you go. When I find someplace to easily back up 10GB of music, I'll reformat it to ext3 or summat.

DeadBankClerk

Back up those songs to 16 CD's as soon as you can. If your hard disk breaks, you'll be sorry!