Hoffmann wrote:
--- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:02 -0800, Hoffmann wrote:
Hello:
I used the following command to mount an external
HD
on my box:
# mount -t ntfs -o umask=007 /dev/sdf5
/media/HP_Personal_Media_Drive
and I got this permission:
dr-xr-x--- 1 root root 12288 Dec 9 16:56
HP_Personal_Media_Drive
How can I change this thing in order to have
permission (as a non-root user) for writing on
that
external HD? My goal is to be able not only to
read
the external HD (as I can right do now), but also
move
files to it.
The linux ntfs driver has very limited write support
and won't be able
to do this. There may be other ways of doing what
you need though - see
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#3.2_can_the_driver_write_to_an_ntfs_volume_too
Paul.
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Hi Paul,
Thanks for the hint.
What about a partition on the external HD. Is it
possible to partition it? I mean, in my case, the
external HD has 120 GB, and the idea would be to keep
20 GB for using it with Windows (NTFS), and 100 GB to
use with FC4.
Is that possible, and how?
The usual fix for this would be to reformat the disk as FAT32 instead of
NTFS, which would then be both readable and writable by both Windows and
Linux.
Partitioning it is possible, but using a different format is probably
simpler.
Paul.
