On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:54:22PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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.
thanks again. i use "umask=022" that solved the problem perfectly. just write down the permission you want, eg. 755, then 777 minus 755, the result is right the value for the "umask". hope it's a useful tip for beginners like me :-) best regards daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
