[ubuntu-users] Second of several questions

[Ted Hilts]

Rich Rudnick
Did not work, in fact nothing changed. The same user and permission 
settings remain and were not altered in any way by putting the changes 
you suggested into /etc/fstab. At least there was no change in the mount 
command based on the changes you suggested in the /etc/fstab file.

I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to make the changes.
I used the mount command to examine the outcome.
I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to return the original settings.

Thanks -- Ted


Rich Rudnick wrote:
> Ted Hilts wrote:
>
>   
>> My problem is the ntfs hard drives.  Anything I store on them under 
>> Ubuntu operations looks like:
>> -rwxrwx--- 2 root plugdev   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>>
>> "
>> When I do the mount command this is what I get:
>>
>> /dev/sde1 on /media/sde1 type fuseblk 
>> (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096)
>>
>>     
>
> If it's true that the way the ntfs partition mounting is the issue, then 
> you should change the mounting options.
>
> For example, you could put the following in /etc/fstab
>
> /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 defaults,gid=ted,uid=ted,umask=007 0 1
>
> and then ted would be the owner. It would be
>
> -rwxrwx--- 2 ted ted   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>
> and you could share them as the ted user.
>
> Alternatively, you could simply change the umask, giving all 
> read/write/execute rights:
>
> /dev/sde1 /media/sde1 defaults,gid=046,umask=000 0 1
>
> and then it would be read/writeable by any user.
>
> -rwxrwxrwx 2 root plugdev   371386 2006-07-08 22:18 xinha-latest.zip
>
> I hope this helps
>
>   
Rich Rudnick
Did not work, in fact nothing changed. The same user and permission 
settings remain and were not altered in any way by putting the changes 
you suggested into /etc/fstab. At least there was no change in the mount 
command based on the changes you suggested in the /etc/fstab file.

I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to make the changes.
I used the mount command to examine the outcome.
I used "sudo gedit /etc/fstab" to return the original settings.

Thanks -- Ted