topic title: mount ntfs as user
Posts: 192
coyotito
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
#1
hi
Just installed 8.5 686 on a P4 3 ghz 2.5 gb ram.
Im in the country with Edge mobile net and this gave me the most complete installation of the
distros I had on CD.

I had a kanotix installation that just collapsed, dont know why, may not have
followed all recommendations for maintaining it.

2 things did not work: shutdown menu after install of Xfce4 and mount ntfs as user.
Standard setup with disk-manager.
Shutdown solved by stealing the cb-exit script from Crunchbang (Squeeze version).

Other than this must say 8.5 is faboulously good. Great choice of lightweight software,
so much comes with this small image. have added some stuff but shudder at the thought of running
ubuntu f.ex with my bandwith. Selected upgrades only, and careful with repos, perfect.
Squeeze level software and mepis 2.6.32 kernel and all I need works, very stable system.
I see no need to upgrade until next debian version.
Posts: 325
male
Joined: 04 Nov 2011
#2
coyotito wrote:mount ntfs as user
example
Open a terminal and become root
Put the directory to ntfs

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mkdir /dev/mnt/ntfs
Put the default entry in the /dev/fstab
e.g.
nano-w /dev/fstab >Enter and fill in the following line

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/dev/sdxy /mnt/sdxy ntfs auto,users,exec,rw,umask=000 0 0
(sdxy=your ntfs partition)
(save)
Ctrl+o
Enter
(leave)
Ctrl+x

lead from a restart.
The ntfs partition suits you from now on every boot up reading and writing are available.
Posts: 192
coyotito
Joined: 27 Sep 2007
#3
thanks, that did it.
my line is

/dev/sda1 /C ntfs-3g auto,users,gid=users,dmask=002,fmask=113,relatime 0 0

It had the noauto option, that was the problem.