[Techtalk] User mounting of a NTFS partition

[Anne Wainwright]

Hi,

see below

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:31:32 +0900
Kathryn wrote:

|> Morning all...
|> 
|> I'm sure the answer to this is "It's not possible", but I thought I'd ask
|> anyway.
|> 
|> I have a laptop that has multiple partitions.  My file system is as follows:
|> 
|> sda1 ntfs (for Vista)
|> sda2 vfat (for shared data)
|> sda3 swap
|> sda4
|>   sda5 ext3 (for kubuntu which I rarely use)
|>   sda6 ext3 (for Fedora my daily OS)
|>   sda7 ext3 home
|>   sda8 ext3 tmp
|> 
|> 
|> This is what I started with in my /etc/fstab
|> 
|> [kathryn at Galaxy ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
|> LABEL=/1                /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
|> LABEL=/tmp1             /tmp                    ext3    defaults        1 2
|> LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
|> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
|> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
|> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
|> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
|> LABEL=SWAP-sda3         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
|> /dev/sda2               /Data                   vfat    rw,noauto,user  0 0
|> /dev/sda1               /Vista                  ntfs    rw,noauto,user  0 0
|> 

I have mounted my ntfs partition read-only. I think you should be careful that your linux supports writing, mine doesn't. 

My options are set as:

user,ro,noauto,gid=windows,umask=002

I can then mount it when I need. I use xvmount

Anne

|> 
|> 
|> [kathryn at Galaxy ~]$ ls -l /
|> total 180
|> ...
|> drwxr-xr-x  25 kathryn kathryn 16384 1970-01-01 09:00 Data
|> ...
|> drwxr-xr-x   2 kathryn kathryn  4096 2008-06-29 16:48 Vista
|> 
|> [kathryn at Galaxy ~]$ mount -f -v /Vista
|> mount: only root can do that
|> 
|> 
|> So upon reading, I decided to try it ro.  Same outcome.  I tried owner
|> rather than user with the same outcome.  The only way I can mount /Vista is
|> as root.  And I really don't want to do that.  It's not mission critical.
|> There isn't *that* much stuff on that partition I would need to access (just
|> logs from some software I test) and I can always reboot into Vista. So how
|> can I mount /Vista as myself?
|> 
|> Any thoughts?
|> 
|> With thanks,
|> 


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