chown/chmod and NTFS-3G

[Liam Higgins]

Thanks Dan, I understand now.
I might pass those options through fstab. The best thing for me to do is 
to format the the drive to EXT3 I have found a couple of programs that 
allow you to access EXT3 partitions within Windows XP (check out the 
link below). I understand that Windows XP understand the POSIX system 
but I'm under Ubuntu a whole lot more.
http://www.howtoforge.com/access-linux-partitions-from-windows

Liam

Daniel Mons wrote:
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>> Hello Everyone.
>> I'm trying to chown a user to be the owner of a directory mounted on an 
>> NTFS volume. The command completes successfully but when I go back to 
>> check if the change was successful the owner and group are still root 
>> with rwxrwxrwx set. Is this a limitation on ntfs-g volumes ? Or is 
>> something wrong with my fstab options? 
>>     
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> chown/chmod only applies to POSIX-compatible file systems (ext2, ext3,
> xfs, jfs, etc).  Windows file systems like FAT32 and NTFS don't
> understand the uid/gid stamp (NTFS uses a different ACL based system
> internally to deal with permissions).
>
> If you want to mount an NTFS partition and have it owned by a certain
> user/group, pass mount-time options to do so.  For example:
>
> mount -o uid=username,gid=groupname /dev/sdaX /path/to/mountpoint
>
> All options must be comma separated without spaces.  You can pass the
> same options in your fstab in the appropriate column.  If there are
> other options there (say like "defaults"), again comma separate the
> options with no spaces.
>
> "man mount" will give you a list of all the other possible options you
> can pass at mount time.
>
> - -Dan
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