Problems mounting NTFS partition

[Zom]

I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 and I'm having problems accessing my windows partition. At the moment my windows data partition appears in /tmp/disks-conf-sda5 and is only viewable by the root user. When I try and change the permissions in Nautilus it says "Couldn't change the permissions of "disks-conf-sda5" because it is on a read-only disk". What I want to be able to do is to have it automount on startup so that a standard user can read from the partition. Any ideas as to how I might achieve this?

 

[Davyb]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#...n_boot-up.2C_and_allow_all_users_to_read_only

 

[Zom]

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper#...n_boot-up.2C_and_allow_all_users_to_read_only

I'd tried mounting my windows partition to /media/windata but I got the following error:

mount: /dev/sda5 already mounted or /media/windata busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda5 is mounted on /tmp/disks-conf-sda5

This is the line in mtab:

/dev/sda5 /tmp/disks-conf-sda5 ntfs rw 0 0

What should I do next?

 

[Davyb]

To unmount CD/DVD-ROM

sudo umount /media/cdrom0/

I would assume this would be the same for the ntfs patition !

So sudo unmount /media/windata or sudo unmount /dev/sda5

Try an unmount the partition with the above then add the mount command into the mtab and reboot.

Just a suggestion.

 

[Zom]

I've got it sorted - I simply changed a line in mtab to:

/dev/sda5 /media/windata ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Thanks for your help - I can now listen to all my music

 

[enragedchip]

I don't think that will be perminate.

/etc/mtab lists what you have mounted, its not where you tell mount where to mount stuff, that would be done in /etc/fstab

its the same command just written in /etc/fstab

 

[Zom]

I don't think that will be perminate.

/etc/mtab lists what you have mounted, its not where you tell mount where to mount stuff, that would be done in /etc/fstab

its the same command just written in /etc/fstab

yes