On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 19:10 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2009/1/1, Michael Wagner <michaeldeb...@web.de>: > > * Umarzuki Mochlis <umarz...@gmail.com> 01.01.2009 > > > > > A ntfs partition mounted on /mnt/win cannot be opened as normal user > > > so i decided to soft link it to desktop yet still it cannot be opened > > > by normal user eventhough link file mod is 777. Why? > > > > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-01-01 15:38 win -> /mnt/win/ > > > > > > Hello Umarzuki, > > > > the permissions of the link are uninterestingly because they are always > > 777. Only the permissions of the the target are interesant. You must > > mount the directory and when it is mounted you change the permissions > > to the rights you need for your user. Then they are always the same > > every time you mount the device. > > > > Hth Michael > > > > Thanks for that info. In my case, I simply forgot it is ntfs > partition. So I have to mount it with ntfs-3g instead of mount. <snip>
If you add something like this to your /etc/fstab file, any user can then mount the file system using the standard 'mount' command. /dev/sde1 /media/ntfs ntfs-3g rw,user,noauto 0 0 See the man page for 'ntfs-3g' for additional details on how this works, using file/directory permissions, etc. > > > -- > Regards, > > Umarzuki Mochlis > http://gameornot.net > > -- Bob McGowan
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