Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility...

[Alan McKinnon <alan@linuxholdings.co.za>]

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.

alan




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