Accessing NTFS partitions in Linux (Suse 8.0)

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I have already figured out how to mount the NTFS partitions; I followed the FAQ to the letter and it worked beautifully. The problem that I have now is that the mount point (/mnt/ntfs) is locked to normal users. I can only access it as root. I've tried changing permissions on it (through the GUI - I'm new to this, so bear with me. I have no idea how to do it through the command line. This is what I get for growing up on Windows) to no avail. I get an error message saying that I have insufficient permissions, even as root, to change these things. Any Suggestions? All I'm trying to do is gain access to my MP3s and a few other things, and I realize it's read only, but that's good enough. oh, and if it helps, here is the command line I used to mount the partition:

mount -t ntfs -o umask=644 /dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs

Nate

 

[manly]

In addition to specifying a non-default umask parameter as you have shown, you also need to pass in uid and/or gid mount parameters (depending on the actual permissions you'd like to grant). Check out the man page:

man mount

Working example for SuSE:

mount -t ntfs -o umask=644,gid=100 /dev/hda5 /mnt/ntfs

 

[NTB]

That did it - I'm listening to those mp3s as I type this. Thank you very much.

Nate