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From: Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2006 01:53:36
Message-Id: 1136684856.9998.0.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition by Mick
1 On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 01:22 +0000, Mick wrote:
2 > Michael Sullivan wrote:
3 >
4 > > I think someone's asked this before here, but I don't remember the
5 > > answer; How do I make it where regular users can read, execute, and
6 > > possibly write files on my mounted Windows XP partition? The only thing
7 > > I use Windows for anymore is playing DirectX games, and I'm emerging
8 > > wine now. I noticed that my personal account gets "Permission denied"
9 > > when trying to ls /mnt/windows and I don't want to have to use the root
10 > > account unnecessarily...
11 >
12 > Yep, I asked this a couple of days ago, but the title could be misleading:
13 >
14 > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/150416
15 >
16 > The trick is to allow others to access and read the partition in your fstab.
17 > Setting uid=222 allows the partition to be mounted with r-x rights for all
18 > concerned.
19 > --
20 > Regards,
21 > Mick
22 >
23
24 I looked at man mount (as suggested in the link you sent me) and then
25 only mention of NTFS was the iocharset option. How would I go about
26 setting up a umask in /etc/fstab to accomplish this?
27
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT - Permissions on mounted Windows partition Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com>