Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (146 mails)

["Scott, John" <joscott@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Ryan Biltz [mailto:rbiltz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 7:07 PM
To: suse-amd64@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [suse-amd64] only root can access NTFS removable media??


Hello All,

I was happy to see that NTFS is supported out of the box with SuSE 9.3.

However it seems only root is able to access the file system.  I plugged

in an external USB HD (NTFS) of mine while logged in as a normal user.  
The removable media icon showed up on the file browser but when i click 
to open and explore within it gave me an access denied error.  When I 
log in as root I am able to browse and access the files.  Also I am 
unable to modify any of the files or write new ones.  Acts like a CD.  I

know there is no Write support for NTFS yet but I was hoping to at least

have the ability to read my files as a normal user and not have to be 
root to access them.  Is there a way to do this?  Thanks for any Info.

-ryan


Ryan,

You should only mount NTFS read-only for now. Go here to learn more:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html

Towards the bottom of the FAQ are links to projects that are attempting
NTFS read/write, but this is dangerous for the filesystem (work in
progress), use at own risk.  A better recommendation, format the
external drive as FAT32 instead if you don't need NTFS for anything
since Windows and Linux can both read/write FAT32.

As for mounting the NTFS for normal users:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/ntfs.html#4.10

You'll need to make some changes to the partition name that they use
since you're mounting it as usb and not hda1 per their examples.  Here
is what is in my /etc/fstab for my ntfs partition:

/dev/hda1       /windows        ntfs    ro,umask=0222,noauto,user,exec 0
0


John