Accessing Root Mounted Directory

Hi.

I mount my NTFS partition as root but as a user I cannot access it. I have tried to use chown and changed the mounted directory to my username but in GNOME i get an error.??

Can somebody please tell me the correct way as otherwise I have to stick to the terminal and its really annoying!


Thanks.

Hi.

I mount my NTFS partition as root but as a user I cannot access it. I have tried to use chown and changed the mounted directory to my username but in GNOME i get an error.??

Can somebody please tell me the correct way as otherwise I have to stick to the terminal and its really annoying!
Thanks.
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Hi there, what i did to mount my drive (i have an ntfs vista drive) is to simply install ntfs-3g, you can get it from here...

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html#download

install this, if you're not sure how to install tar's then use deltaflyers tips here...

http://stuntmanandy.no-ip.biz/Howto%27s.html

then, after it has installed go to my computer, right click on the ntfs drive and then click unmount. then log into console as su and then enter mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt/windows

if this does not work simply try mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt
then simply open up konqueror and type in /mnt or /mnt/windows (whichever you used) and your drive should be mounted there.

this of course applies if the drive is sda1, if it is sda2 or hda1 or whatever, change it accordingly. if you get stuck, send another post. cheers.

Cool.

Thanks I will try it.... Just had loads of docs i needed to try and get the internet to work originally.

Anyway, am just about to delete everything and install 10.3... I was reading about the forum and thats pretty much the safest and easiest way of doing things!

Here goes nothing....

Cool.

Thanks I will try it.... Just had loads of docs i needed to try and get the internet to work originally.

Anyway, am just about to delete everything and install 10.3... I was reading about the forum and thats pretty much the safest and easiest way of doing things!

Here goes nothing....
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Just make sure you back all your stuff up first lol. What you could do first is create a partition for suse 10.3, then if you like it just delete your old linux off there, easy enough to do, is what i did for the first few days of using 10.3 before i got everything up and running like wireless, media support etc etc.
Just a thought...

Thanks for that... but I didn't have enough space!

Lucky for me, 10.3 worked pretty much out of the box. Had to install DIVx codecs but this did everything for me.

Will start to tinker with it, but for now I have everything I need to start using on a daily basis!

Cheers.

Thanks for that... but I didn't have enough space!

Lucky for me, 10.3 worked pretty much out of the box. Had to install DIVx codecs but this did everything for me.

Will start to tinker with it, but for now I have everything I need to start using on a daily basis!

Cheers.
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ok good stuff. hope the ntfs-3g worked ok, you may want to try ntfs-config, which makes it easier to mount the drive at boot so it's readily available for read/write support. and yeh, 10.3 is very good out of the box, and media support is even better with the 1click install programs...

let me know how the mounting and read/write goes. any more problems send me a post....

Ross.

Thanks for the reply. I don't want to write to the drive - cant afford to mess up the entire laptop and then have to go through the whole Windows XP/Suse 10.3 installation.

So is there an option in to make it read-only? I might just use the standard mount utility...?

Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. I don't want to write to the drive - cant afford to mess up the entire laptop and then have to go through the whole Windows XP/Suse 10.3 installation.

So is there an option in to make it read-only? I might just use the standard mount utility...?

Thanks.
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yes there is a way to make the drive read only. you could just make root the owner by logging in as root in the console and typing chown root /media (or where it is) and then doing chmod a+r /media, which should do the trick. or alternatively you can make yourself the owner by chown username /media, then right clicking on the drive>properties>permissions, and then set owner, group and others to read only.

hope this helps?

let me know. if you want to know more about chmod which is all about changing permissions type man chmod in a terminal. its not a fun read but its very good to learn.

ross.

edit: by saying 'clicking on the drive' i mean the folder to where it is mounted to, not in my computer. also, make sure you tick the box which says apply changes to subfolders ok.

You don't need to and never should log in as root you can run the commands with root permissions by first typing su in a console as normal user

/Geoff

You don't need to and never should log in as root you can run the commands with root permissions by first typing su in a console as normal user

/Geoff
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that what i meant, log in as root in console, not log in as root as a user. if you see the command i gave its from a console, yet i said if he does chown as a user then he can just change the permissions as a normal user in konqueror. sorry for the misunderstanding.

edit: the previous post edited so is more clear.