[Sussex] Newb Question - Reading NTFS filesystem

[Steve Williams]

-----Original Message-----
    From: "Ronan Chilvers"<ronan at thelittledot.com>
    Sent: 24/11/05 15:55:37
    To: "sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk"<sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
    Subject: Re: [Sussex] Newb Question - Reading NTFS filesystem
      Hi Neil
    
    On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 11:05:24 +0000
    Neil Simmons <nasimmons at gmail.com> wrote:
    
    > Google tells me that Linux can read NTFS. I'd like to be able to
    > access it from Linux, so that I can play my mp3s in a decent OS, but
    > at present, the filesystem doesn't see the drive at all.
    > 
    
    Officially NTFS is read-only for penguins.  Write support is available
    but is not stable or safe at all.  Ubuntu for example sets up NTFS
    partitions as read only on install.
    
    > Please could someone offer some advice as to how I:
    > 
    >  - mount that hdd so that I can actually see it, and
    
    Suprised your Ubuntu install didn't do this, but on my Hoary
    workstation I have the following in /etc/fstab
    
    /dev/hda1       /media/windows  auto    ro,users,noauto  0       0
    
    That is, /dev/hda1 is my windows 2000 partition and the filesystem type
    is automagically worked out by the kernel on mount.
    
    >  - read (do I need to execute too?) the files in NTFS?
    
    Once mounted, you can just open the filesystem directly in nautilus.
    One strangeness is that I need to be root to read the filesystem which
    is annoying, despite the 'users' parameter in the fstab line.  You
    could replace the 'noauto' with 'auto' to get it mounted on boot.
  
You need to  set the "umask=nnnn" option here.
/dev/hda1       /media/windows  auto    ro,users,noauto,umask=0000  0       0



  > Or should I just shift the data, reformat in FAT and start again?
    
    FAT32 is well supported - I'd go for that.
    
    Cheers
    
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    Ronan
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