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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility...
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:14:29
Message-Id: 200702261306.54673.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Question regarding dual boot accessibility... by Chris
1 On Monday 26 February 2007, Chris wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I have a dual boot windows / Gentoo system. I have my NTFS
5 > (windows) main partition listed in fstab with
6 > "user,noauto,nosuid, noatime". A normal user can mount and
7 > umount it, but cannot change directories, look at files, etc. as
8 > they'll get a permission denied error. When I list the files and
9 > dirs, they all show up as belonging to "root:root", with no
10 > access for group and others.
11 >
12 > My question is: Is there a way to allow normal users to at least
13 > read these files and change dirs, short of chown and/or chmod on
14 > the NTFS partition?
15
16 My fstab entry for NTFS:
17
18 /dev/sda2 /mnt/win/c ntfs umask=0,users 0 0
19
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