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Simple mount question

  • 23-04-2007 07:29PM
    #1
    KAGY
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,080 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    I'm trying to figure out how to set a user as the owner of a dev when it's automounted. Its an ntfs drive fstab entry as follows 
    /dev/sda1       /windows/C       ntfs    auto,user,ro,noexec 0   0
    However, when ever I try to view it through natilus (Ubuntu) I get a access denied message.
    I can type /windows$ sudo chown -hR karl:users C and it seems to run through the files (but each has the warning readonly file system)

    how can I set me as the owner when mounting, or how can I start a superuser graphical file management?

    Thanks


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  • #2
    Skrynesaver
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,110 ✭✭✭Skrynesaver


    You can't write to an NTFS partition, so you can't change the ownership.

    You can however install ntfs-3g 
    sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g
    and change the line in your /etc/fstab to read: 
    /dev/sda1       /windows/C ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_IE.utf8    0    0
    Then 
    sudo mount -a


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