On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 01:45 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 07:55 -0700, Craig White wrote: > > It would appear that mounting ntfs-3g systems is like mounting vfat > > where the user/group that mounts the files is the owner/group of those > > files and no amount of chown/chmod will change that. > > > > Mount the disk with uid/gid that you want. > > Without some sort of additional user mapping between which user is which > on Windows versus Linux, I can't see how you could avoid that. ---- I don't understand your point. I know that a fat/vfat mount doesn't understand posix attributes and they cannot be stored on the filesystem so the uid/gid is declared at the time of mounting (or if undeclared, root:root because only root can mount the filesystem unless designated otherwise, i.e. by hal or within fstab). Normally, I would point someone to 'man mount' but the parameters for ntfs-3g aren't included in mount's man pages since it isn't part of the distribution but I would guess that there is some man page for ntfs-3g. Guessing (I have read nothing to suggest better), something like this in /etc/fstab would probably work... /dev/sdXX /mnt/ntfsdrive ntfs-3g uid=Y,gid=Z,ANY_SELINUX_CONTEXTS 0 0 where XX is the drive letter and partition of the hard drive (discoverable by typing mount) where Y is the uid of the desired "user" where Z is the gid of the desired "user's group" It seems obvious to me that ntfs-3g is not a good filesystem for permanent storage but rather a means to use a hard drive on Linux that is normally used on a Windows computer temporarily. Craig
