chmod on NTFS drives

[Genocide_Hoax]

Hello Everyone ,

Can anyone please guide if there is any way to change file permisions of NTFS drives ? All my C programming files resides in a NTFS drive and I need to set execute permision on them in order to run.

I tired chmod -Rv 777 /media/Programming.

and also tired

chmod 775 *.* after entering the folder in which all my files resides.

but both these commands doesn't seem to have any effect on the files.

I know NTFS doesn't use Unix file system and chmod command goes in vain. Is there anyway around to do it.

Thanking You

[Irithori]

man mount.ntfs

You can mount ntfs with different default permissions.

[Genocide_Hoax]

Thanking You very much reminding me this. I had to manually mount the drive using the -o exec option.

Just to complete the thread , this is what I had to do.

mount -t ntfs-3g -o exec /dev/sdb7 /media/Drive

Fedora gives you the freedom to mount your ntfs automatically with just a click. Is there any way to add the -o exec option in the default mounting operation? Kindly let me know if it is possible.

Thank You

Regards

Genocide_Hoax

[ni_boy]

check out autofs.

[devils casper]

You can edit /etc/fstab file and add option(s) in mount line of NTFS Partition.

/dev/sdb7     /media/Drive     ntfs-3g     defaults,exec,umask=0  0  0

[Genocide_Hoax]

Ok thank you very much.