On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:59:25 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote: > Is this technique of umask=0 safe to use on an NTFS volume? I want to > mount an NTFS drive on my desktop so that a regular user can access it. > Is there a similar way to mount it with only read permissions, > seeing as writing to NTFS drives isn't usually a particularly good idea > with Linux.
NTFS partitions are usually mounted with the ro option (read only) so it doesn't matter what write permissions you set. But to be certain, you could set umask=222. -- Neil Bothwick "Bother," said Pooh, as he pulled the alien face-hugger off.
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