[grimm003]

I have a sata drive mounted with all my songs on it, it's ntfs. Now how do I set the permission for it to be read by all users. I've tried this:
chmod a+r /mnt/media
while logged in as root. It then gives me:
chmod: changing permissions of `/mnt/media/': Read-only file system
It sounds like it should work to me, but I still get permission denied when accessing as a user.

[khiloa]

I have a line like this in my /etc/fstab file:

Code:

/dev/sda1               /mnt/media   ntfs            ro,user,noauto,umask=002 0 0

and with that I can do exactly what you want; You can even mount it with a normal user. change the /dev/sda1 part to whatever your ntfs partition is, and the /mnt/media part to where you want to mount it.

[grimm003]

ok, my partitions on my sata drive look like this:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/appz ntfs ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda2 /mnt/media ntfs ro,user,noauto 0 0

So by my great deduction skills, I see that umask=002 makes the difference. Could you explain to me, briefly, why? Thanks for your help btw

[grimm003]

oh yeah, how do you make those nifty code blocks too?

[MRD]

Add umask=000 as an option in fstab or on the command line when you mount to give permission for all to rwx. This works for any non standard filesystems that do not support a normal unix permission structure, such as ntfs, vfat, msdos, etc.

[grimm003]

thanks, what does the umask=002 do differently than just 000?

[MRD]

Different permissions. 000 is like chmod 777, 002 is like chmod 775.

do a man chmod for an explanation of how the numbers work.