FC4 - Mounting an external HD. Am I almost there?

[Paul Howarth]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 21:02 -0800, Hoffmann wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> I used the following command to mount an external HD
> on my box:
> 
> # mount -t ntfs -o umask=007 /dev/sdf5
> /media/HP_Personal_Media_Drive
> 
> and I got this permission: 
> dr-xr-x---   1 root root 12288 Dec  9 16:56
> HP_Personal_Media_Drive
> 
> How can I change this thing in order to have
> permission (as a non-root user) for writing on that
> external HD? My goal is to be able not only to read
> the external HD (as I can right do now), but also move
> files to it.

The linux ntfs driver has very limited write support and won't be able
to do this. There may be other ways of doing what you need though - see
http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?id=ntfs-en#3.2_can_the_driver_write_to_an_ntfs_volume_too

Paul.