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* Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility...
  @ 2007-02-26 13:15 99% ` Mick
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From: Mick @ 2007-02-26 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: gentoo-user

On 26/02/07, Chris <cjw2004d@comcast.net> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> 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.

You may want to try speciying umask, or uid as described here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_Windows_partitions_%28DOS%2C_FAT%2C_NTFS%29

> 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?

and/or here:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Fix_NTFS_Permissions

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick
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