[64studio-devel] ntfs read/write problem solved

[R.Wolff]

Gustin Johnson schrieb:
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> R.Wolff wrote:
> | OK, I have my ntfs problem solved. the line(s) in fstab now read:
> | '
> | /dev/hdd3 /media/Whatever ntfs umask=0002,rw,user,noauto 0 0'
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> | which has left me with root still being the owner of my 
> partitions/drives.
> | Changing ownership as root then did it. Could I replace 'user' with my
> username
> | instead maybe?
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> No, user means that any user can mount the partition.  There is an
> option uid, so to use your example
>

Yeah, that's what I found out and did still later last night.

> /dev/hdd3 /media/Whatever ntfs umask=0002,rw,user,noauto,uid=myusername
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my fstab looks like this now for these drives/partitions:

'/dev/hdd3 /media/Whatever ntfs umask=0002,uid=1000,noauto 0 0'
I will try umask=02222 later to see if I still have write access then.


> I would *not* use the rw, and umask=0002 options unless I was using
> ntfs-3g.  The options "ro,umask=0222" are my suggestion unless you don't
> value your data.  :)
>

I really can't get my head around these numbers. Even after reading the mount 
(and other) man pages, it was more confusing than helping me.

libntfs9 & ntfsprogs are installed on my system. ntfs-3g doesn't seem to be in 
the repos anymore. From my understanding, ntfs-3g was/is only a graphical 
frontend to libntfs9, no?

> ...I have moved everything into
> an ext3 partition (actually a USB hard drive) and installed the ext2/3
> driver for windows.  If there is a problem it is easier for me to rescue
> data off of an ext based file system.
> 
I have the ext2ifs driver installed under windows as well. I wonder how this 
performs for actually recording projects under win? Is it as fast and as 
reliable than ntfs under windows? I would consider using this driver/filesystem 
combination under windows if it turns out as well as the native solution.
Well, I know how to recover files from an ntfs partition, question is always, 
will it still be useable? Would this be any different with ext3 based filesystems?

> Hth,

All info is always helpful on my quest to a better *nix understanding ;)

Cheers
Raphael ;)