On Sat, 2004-06-26 at 15:09 +1000, david wrote: > thanks phil > that gave me root access only but i worked around that to backload all > the data i needed from bakcup ... > > My fstab line looks like: > > > > /dev/sda2 /w2k ntfs ro,iocharset=utf8,uid=512,gid=512,umask=0227 0 0 Perhaps should have pointed out, change uid/gid to match the user you want to have access (or work as root). Phil