Thanks for the help Alan. My windows partition is now available to me, but
it is still read-only. I added the line in /etc/fstab just as you suggested:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0
and I can see it fine, but it is still read-only, both to myself, and as root.
So close ... :-)
Terry
On Monday 07 May 2001 02:21 pm, you wrote:
> Terry wrote:
> > Todd,
> >
> > This is what my fstab file looks like:
> >
> > /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> > /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
> > 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0
> > 0 0 /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/zip 0 0
> > none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> > /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> >
> > What do I need to add to be able to properly access my
> > windows partition on boot up, so I don't have to type the
> > mount command every time I login? I was finally able to
> > figure out how to allow myself access (w/o being root) to
> > the windows partition by doing:
> >
> > mount -w -t ntfs -o uid=501 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
> >
> > but am still unable to have write permissions, even as
> > root.
> >
> > Thanks for the help .. almost there! :-)
> >
> > Terry
>
> Terry....try the below, umask=0 should give you write
> permission as a user.
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs user,exec,umask=0 0 0
