mount points, permissions

[BillieJean]

my system is kubuntu 7.04

i installed automatix to save some headaches, and then installed the ntfs write support.

till then, my windows partition was mounted as /windows.
well after installing the ntfs support, clicking the /windows folder resulted in opening empty directory.

so after tinkering with the kde mount point manager and gparted, i managed to make the windows partition (/dev/sda1) mount as /windows.

although, the problem remains, as me, the normal user (anze) don't have the right to acces the folder.

now i got kinda confused because i don't know what does all that group/user etc thing mean. all i know is that there's me, as a regular user (anze) and a group with the same name, and i'm not sure what that means, so some explanation would be helpful.

thanks

[devils casper]

Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.

[BillieJean]

# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda3
UUID=3bb9ad03-61b8-4729-9f68-9b998104eb2d / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
# /dev/sda1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=aa69249e-35a8-4754-9e5d-51c6033fa1e0 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto user,atime,noauto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

# Generated by Automatix
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions
/dev/sda1 /windows ntfs uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

[devils casper]

# Generated by Automatix
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions
/dev/sda1 /windows ntfs uid=0,gid=0,auto,rw,nouser 0 0

Why did you add two entries for /dev/sda1?
Which Partition is Data Partition? Post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' command too.

[Eswara Moorthy]

Post the contents of /etc/fstab file here.

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=/project /project ext3 defaults 1 2
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=/project /project ext3 defaults 1 2
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
LABEL=/project /project ext3 defaults 1 2
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[devils casper]

Hi Eswara Moorthy !

Welcome to the LinuxForums.

You have posted contents of /etc/fstab file but havn't explained your problem.

[BillieJean]

ok, i had no time to reply earlier so here's my fstab -l output:

root@xubuntu:/home/anze# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 15298 122881153+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 38671 38913 1951897+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 15299 38670 187735590 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
root@xubuntu:/home/anze#

@ devil's casper - please note that i know next to nothing about those things and basically all i did was some tinkering around with gparted and the kde partition management utility.

sda1 is the windows ntfs partition
sda2 is swap partition
sda3 is ext3 / partition

any idea?

[devils casper]

Execute this

kdesu kate /etc/fstab

Above command will open /etc/fstab file with root privileges in kate text editor.

Delete these lines:

# Generated by Automatix
/dev/sda1   /media/sda1   ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
## End of Automatix mounted partitions

Edit last line

/dev/sda1 /windows  ntfs-3g  defaults,umask=0  0  0

Save file and reboot. All users will have read/access in /windows folder.

[BillieJean]

but will all users also be able to write to ntfs?

[devils casper]

Yes. All users will have read/write access in NTFS Partition ( /windows folder ).