[SC.LUG] Back up and running

[Damian Parker]

On Sun, 2005-10-23 at 22:00 +0100, Simeon W Farrington wrote:

> 'tis all good fun but at least I've got sound up and running (Wahey). I do 
> have one problem which people will know I'm sure how to answer. My 
> (not-insubstantial) music collection currently resides on a ntfs-formatted 
> partition which I can only access as root which is rather unsatisfactory 
> (just because it's a windows partition doesn't mean I have to act in the 
> windows way of do-it-all-as-root) - can someone tell me how I can access this 
> partition as a normal user?
> 

in /etc/fstab drop a line:
/dev/hde1       /mnt/tunes      ntfs     noauto,user,ro,umask=0222 0 0

then as a user

mount /mnt/tunes

I only mount ntfs read only and the umask makes things available to the
user.

change /dev/hde1 as required ;)


-- 
Damian Parker <damian at damosoft.co.uk>
Damosoft
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