Permissions for mounted NTFS drive

[Jacob L E Blain Christen]

Mark Knights wrote:

> I found this thread at Fedora Forums
> http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=22035
> which suggests I use;
> 
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/win1 -t ntfs -r -o umask=0222
> 
> in fstab so I tried it out.  It worked like a charm and gave me full
> access to the drives.  But, when I reboot it does not remount the drives
> and when I go to mount or unmount other things it tells me that the
> lines that contain that code contain errors?
> 
> Can anyone give me a foolproof way for these drives to be mounted on
> startup and allow full access to all users?

Dunno bout a foolproof way to mount your ntfs drives but that line
is for command line, not fstab.  to get the fstab equivalent:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win1  ntfs  ro,umask=0222 0 0

as a note: the -r in the quoted text means read-only, thus the
ro in the options portion of the fstab entry.
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