Re: [expert] mounting read only ntfs hd's

[Alex ZIJDENBOS]

On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 01:26:48PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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| I am running 6.0 and have trouble mounting my nt ntfs drive so that all
| users have access to it. right now i can look at it only as root. i used
| linuxconf to get it working and my current entry in fstab looks like this:
| 
| /dev/hdb1               /mnt/nt         ntfs    user,exec,dev,suid,ro 0 0
| 
| this mounts the hd at boot time and makes /mnt/nt dr-x------, so that only
| root can go into it. my question is, how do i change it so that it still
| mounts it as read-only (there is only experimental support for rw for
| ntfs) and for me to be able to access it without su -ing?

I have the mount options set as

/dev/hda3       /mnt/nt     ntfs    user,noauto,umask=0222 0 0

The umask will give you -r--r--r-- access on files and dr-xr-xr-x on
directories, which is I think waht you want (you can of remove the
noauto if you're mounting it at boot time).

-- Alex