Mark Knights wrote:
The fstab sintax is different from the mount one. I suggest you man fstab for more information.Hi all,
I have mounted my two XP NTFS drives successfully however am having
troubles with accessing them. I can get temporary access by going in as
root and setting permissions to all users for modify and read access but
that dies after about an hour or so.
My etc fstab lines look like....
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 ntfs nosuid,rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/win2 ntfs nosuid,rw 0 0
and that mounts them fine at boot.
I found this thread at Fedora Forums http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22035 which suggests I use;
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
in fstab so I tried it out. It worked like a charm and gave me full access to the drives. But, when I reboot it does not remount the drives and when I go to mount or unmount other things it tells me that the lines that contain that code contain errors?
Can anyone give me a foolproof way for these drives to be mounted on startup and allow full access to all users?
Cheers
Mark
The ntfs driver does not permit writing files except the one you want write has the same name and the same dimension of the one that is on the disk because the reverse engineering of NTFS is not complete and a complete writing support may damage the filesystem and cause a loss of data.
There is a project named "captive" that permit a complete write access because is a wrapper of the Microsoft NTFS driver.
