From kde-linux Wed Nov 01 05:13:37 2006 From: John Andersen Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:13:37 +0000 To: kde-linux Subject: Re: [kde-linux] read access to NTFS partition with Konqueror 3.5.1 Message-Id: <200610312013.39337.jsa () pen ! homeip ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-linux&m=116236114303080 On Tuesday 31 October 2006 18:37, Aphofis.com - Network Operations Centre wrote: > I am running KDE 3.5.1 level a from SUSE Linux 10.1 Distro. > When I was running 10.0 distro - sorry dont know which KDE release) I > had read access to the NTFS partition of my hard disk. Now I dont have > access to the partition with Konqueror. > I had not notice its absence until just recently. > Even If I enter the partition as /dev/hda1. > I can still log into Windoze from the menu and the O/S runs fine. > I cannot understand why I no longer have read only access to this > partition. > Is there an option I have missed or stuffed up with Konqueror? > Many thanks Scott You may want an entry if /etc/fstab for that drive which will cause it to be mounted read-only at a particular subdirectory under your root directory, perhaps something like /windows or something. The line you need to add to /etc/fstab would look something like this: /dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro,user,uid=????,gid=???? 0 0 Substitute your uid/gid for the questionmarks. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.