[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: tw <techworld.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:27:26 -0500
Just put something like this in /etc/fstab. This is for a RHEL system
using the NTFS-3G module, it may be different depending upon the distro
you use.
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,fmask=0000,dmask=0$
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 12:14 -0500, Jim Worrest wrote:
> Roger Feese wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:02:15AM -0500, Jim Worrest wrote:
> >
> >> I seem to have noticed that there is a new way to access partitions,
> >> with Debian based Linuxes anyway. Referring to a file etc. Is there an
> >> easy
> >> way to get something that looks like the old way, and the average user can
> >> access them.
> >>
> >
> > Can you provide more detail? I am not sure what you are describing. As
> > far as I know, not much has changed as far as mounting and accessing
> > file systems. Are you talking about accessing a NTFS partition or a
> > removeable media? Are you doing this from the command line or using a
> > graphical desktop?
> >
>
> Actually, I'm thinking of Windows 98 partitions and partitions of other
> Linuxes on a computer. It of course would be handy to mount an NTFS
> partition -- on occasion. ;-)
>
> The last Knoppix I found that did something in the old-fashioned way,
> was 5.1.1, and even then I had to fiddle with fstab, so that as a regular
> user, I could access windows partitions. The latest Debian while giving
> you a rather fitful way of accessing other partitions it wants you to be
> root to do it, and of course, you can't do that from a gui as user, or
> at least I didn't find a way to do it.
> >
> >> By the way, I also notice that Debian doesn't like to have a
> >> user named "root" which may be one of the easier ways of doing things, Any
> >> way of having a "root" user?
> >>
> >
> > Debian, and as far as I know, every distro has a root user. I think that
> > by default Debian does not allow you to log into X as root. The standard
> > way to become root: Login to X as your normal user account and then open
> > a terminal and use the "su" command to become root or install and use
> > "sudo" to be able to run commands as root. The standard Debian install
> > process has you set the root password and create a standard user
> > account.
> >
>
> That I'm aware of and that is something of a pain. I'm not quite sure
> the advantage of "sudo" over using "su" :-\
> > If you don't have access to a standard user account, switch to one of
> > the text consoles (Ctrl-Alt-F1...F6) and log in as root and add an
> > account for yourself or change your password.
> >
> > Alternately, you can configure the system to allow you to log into X as
> > root but I am not sure where you configure this...it may be in the
> > display manager (gdm, kdm, xdm, etc.).
> >
> > -Rog
> >
> > Roger Feese
> >
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