mount Win partitions

Kostas Sfakiotakis kostassf at cha.forthnet.gr
Sat Mar 18 23:33:33 UTC 2006


Greetings Markku ,

Markku Kolkka wrote:
> Eric Beversluis kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 17. 
> maaliskuuta 2006 18:16):

< snip >

> Options in fstab or mount command is the only place where you can 
> change the permissions of NTFS filesystems. NTFS filesystems are 
> mounted read-only by default.

      There are 2 kernel modules that provide ntfs support . The first one
is read-only , if you select then an ntfs partition will be mounted
read-only not by default but  because it is the only way to do it .
     The second one is the one that provides some limited writing 
capabilities ,
now if you use that one then you would have to specify "ro" during the
mount proccess since writing is possible .
      Now Redhat for as long as i can remember never shipped a linux 
version
with ntfs filesystem support , so if you wanted filesystem support you 
would have
to recompile the kernel and add it . At which point ( recompiling of 
kernel) you would
have to choose which kernel module you wanted (  there is help available 
there ) .
Personally i stopped using the kernels provided by Redhat since they lacked
ntfs filesystem support ( i dual boot and need ntfs filesystem support ) 
  so i just
use the kernels provided  by kernel.org  which  btw have the read-only 
module
preselected , in which case YES the ntfs partition will be mounted 
read-only by
default .


Kind Regards,
   Kostas




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