Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1002 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011/07/27 16:12 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:

> Apologies for asking this question which I know has been asked before
> and to which I did know the answer but after searching the oS
> documentation and googling I am still non the wiser.

> I just installed oS 11.4 on a set of drives which also have XP
> installed. From oS I can read files from the Windows partitions but
> cannot write to them as user (but can as root) - so it is a permission
> problem. The (typical) entry in fstab for the Windows partions is:

> /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WDxxxxx -part8 /windows/G  ntfs-3g
> users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

> Could someone please point me to the place where I can solve this problem?

dmask, fmask & umask are all octal inversions of chmod usage.

fmask=133 produces -rw-r--r--, like chmod 644
dmask=022 produces drwxr-xr-x, like chmod 755

In any event, I set fmask=0111 & dmask=0000, giving dirs drwxrwxrwx and files 
-rw-rw-rw-. Why the installer sets what it sets I have no idea, other than 
risk of naive writes to NTFS making things in Windows work no longer while 
booted to it.
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