[ale] ntfs only accessible by root

Philip Polstra ppolstra at gmail.com
Thu Aug 25 19:45:17 EDT 2005


I've tried to chmod them, but it just complains that it is a read only
file system.  I'm sure it is something simple that I'm missing.

On 8/25/05, H. A. Story <adrin at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Philip Polstra wrote:
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> >Whenever I mount an NTFS partition under FC4 it is only accessible by
> >root.  What am I missing?
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> When you mount the partition, say in /mnt/ntfs.   What are those
> permissions of /mnt /mnt/ntfs?   You may need to chmod then as need or
> change the ownership/group to allow access.  Depending on the system and
> the security you can maybe get away with chmod 777 /mnt/ntfs.
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