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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility...
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:25:28
Message-Id: 358eca8f0702260515v259a7e05h5e3cbd4e89d1cc6d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility... by Chris
1 On 26/02/07, Chris <cjw2004d@×××××××.net> wrote:
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5 > Hello,
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7 > I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS (windows)
8 > main partition listed in fstab with "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A
9 > normal user can mount and umount it, but cannot change directories, look
10 > at files, etc. as they'll get a permission denied error. When I list
11 > the files and dirs, they all show up as belonging to "root:root", with
12 > no access for group and others.
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14 You may want to try speciying umask, or uid as described here:
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16 http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Mount_Windows_partitions_%28DOS%2C_FAT%2C_NTFS%29
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18 > My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least read
19 > these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on the NTFS
20 > partition?
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22 and/or here:
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24 http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Fix_NTFS_Permissions
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26 HTH.
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28 Regards,
29 Mick
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