[huskerlug] Re: accessing non-linux partitions
- From: tw <techworld.mail@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: huskerlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:29:14 -0500
Whoops, here's the entire line:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,uid=500 0
0
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 12:27 -0500, tw wrote:
> 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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