[SOLVED] fstab: should be child's play

[bezdomny]

Windows partition won't mount automatically at boot.. It's accessible only to root., despite "user" option in fstab.

gparted lists NTFS partition as

/dev/hda1

Output of parted:

Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
 1      32.3kB  40.0GB  40.0GB  primary  ntfs         boot

Pertinent line in fstab:

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs auto,user,noexec,rw,sync 0 0

What am I missing? Thanks in advance for any help available.

[rcgreen]

Does it give you an error message when you give a

mount -a command?

[devils casper]

Are you sure its hda1 not sda1? Check the output of fdisk -l command.

su -
fdisk -l

auto,user,noexec,rw,sync 0 0

There is no need to use all those options. defaults,umask=0 is enough.

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=0   0  0

In case it doesn't work, post the output of mount -a command as suggested by rcgreen.

[bezdomny]

Thanks, everyone. Yes, umask=022, (picked up at Debian Forums) was the solution. Don't know the difference between umask=0 and umask=022, but the latter works, so I'm satisfied. Thanks again.