ntfs permissions

[tankcntdrv55]

i have a 250 gig external drive i use to hold my media
formatted as NTFS
it is full so i don't need write support anyhow i just want to be able to read it from my user login, not just as root, but i cannot change the permission because it is a unwritable drive

any way to fix this?

[axelseap]

yes u can use either uid or umask here's an example of each

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp -o umask=0222
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp -o uid=youraccount

the difference is that umask changes the actual permissions and uid changes the owner

[fire-fly]

Originally Posted by axelseap

yes u can use either uid or umask here's an example of each

mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp -o umask=0222
mount -t ntfs /dev/sda1 /mnt/tmp -o uid=youraccount

the difference is that umask changes the actual permissions and uid changes the owner

Is your drive an usb drive ? Was it mount by hotplug and mount by fstab-sync ? ( take a look at /etc/fstab ) ?
If so, above steps WON'T work. Let me know, I want to the procedure but no motivation.

[tankcntdrv55]

it is a USB drive, ( a maxtor one touch that i gutted and put a WD drive in.... how's that for blasphemy? I think i voided my warrenty)

i removed the device from fstab and used the above lines in the console and it worked perfectly

[fire-fly]

did you rebooted the system ? Mostly will be added it again. If so you need to modified /etc/hal/fdi/policy/storage-skip-all.fdi will prevent it from mounting.

[tankcntdrv55]

right on the money.. ba$tards mounted it again

could you be a little more clear on what to modify to prevent this? I'm not a total newB but this is part is pretty new to me

[fire-fly]

Hi
sorry for that is you must find some information about your drive, which I had to recall. I had Maxtor drive too. Try below.
1. backup /etc/hal/fdi/policy/storage-skip-all.fdi
2. Edit as below.
3. Edit /etc/fstab as you done before
3. Reboot system.

( Now if it add the statement in /etc/fstab, that means <match key="info.vendor" string="Maxtor 6"> . I need to some digging. keep me inform )

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- -->
<!-- This .fdi files will tag all storage devices as non mountable -->
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.category" string="storage">
<match key="info.vendor" string="Maxtor 6">
<merge key="storage.policy.should_mount" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

[fire-fly]

Hi
Ok, I wrote a simple instructions see http://busybody.501megs.com//linux/h...ingOption.html

[tankcntdrv55]

worked perfectly

thank you very much, sory it took so long to try, but i've been busy this week