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On Sat, 13 Aug 2005 17:59:25 -0500, Michael Swanson wrote: |
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> Is this technique of umask=0 safe to use on an NTFS volume? I want to |
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> mount an NTFS drive on my desktop so that a regular user can access it. |
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> Is there a similar way to mount it with only read permissions, |
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> seeing as writing to NTFS drives isn't usually a particularly good idea |
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> with Linux. |
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NTFS partitions are usually mounted with the ro option (read only) so it |
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doesn't matter what write permissions you set. But to be certain, you |
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could set umask=222. |
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