From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HLlmA-0003YS-UV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:44:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1QJhIXF009189; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:43:18 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.191]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1QJa0aw032516 for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:36:01 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so3296992nfb for ; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:36:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=UsXI1T0DZFEm0q3O3WrWe5eIFeAC+vRdI7is29YFTUyS4IQMero4M17w/Zmt1Y/uawgwvW8aqOJ+cApwXd/CKqV1+PpYU/PNbNvN5Pe1CAHOw1IwO4NQeePmHf3BVNLqqRXOZQsMIdTPqx/a99Rys63C7rAl9eY5s4Gj5f0jFbY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=IdBEJGLaiZ+G6bdt+Lq87K3wGPxiFkm2SDYG3J7RdCAx1aNqGjgSl1zqfH1DE3z5U9zFpNczBxFl1knmpoXoFEX7lHru24/IUhdeywRi8uvLWlYScptqTL6eDpE2pKt4ChzB1k7d6bOjxFcuQAsSwpD58xzA1FWmHL636I+9mQw= Received: by 10.49.54.3 with SMTP id g3mr13390130nfk.1172518560089; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:36:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from lappy.study ( [213.162.120.196]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id b30sm13726374ika.2007.02.26.11.35.59; Mon, 26 Feb 2007 11:35:59 -0800 (PST) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility... Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:35:21 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <45E2D0FA.6040201@comcast.net> <200702262118.38709.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> In-Reply-To: <200702262118.38709.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1231049.dgV3lzY8ZX"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702261935.42549.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 9543743a-f15c-4001-ac9d-10e4f3fe7fd5 X-Archives-Hash: daff3fdcd2253808d7c23d898a14ce26 --nextPart1231049.dgV3lzY8ZX Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 26 February 2007 19:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS (windows) > > main partition listed in fstab with "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A > > normal user can mount and umount it, but cannot change directories, > > look at files, etc. as they'll get a permission denied error. When I > > list the files and dirs, they all show up as belonging to > > "root:root", with no access for group and others. > > > > My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least > > read these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on the > > NTFS partition? > > ntfs does not understand unix permissions, so there is no concept of a > unix owner and group. You use the uid and gid options to fudge one - > normally root:root is ok. > > Then to set permissions, use the umask option. 0555 should be OK - > read/execute for all. It must be 5 otherwise you can't cd into a > directory. > > Actually you want fmask and dmask options like as in vfat, but mount -t > ntfs doesn't support that, so you have to make do with umask. Whilst you're at it you may want to consider ntfs-3g which can also write t= o=20 ntfs: http://packages.gentoo.org/search/?sstring=3Dntfs3g I haven't had any corruption or failures so far (keeps fingers crossed) but= I=20 am not sure that I would trust a production environment to it. You mileage= =20 may vary. =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1231049.dgV3lzY8ZX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF4zaO5Fp0QerLYPcRApxhAKCOzkuWy5bAxf+KMsQIPDagOkK4GwCgtRhs 7pjGODx/xLyPYujvpeKnC0k= =9HVR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1231049.dgV3lzY8ZX-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list