[arch-general] /etc/fstab :no ext. hdd

[Alessandro Doro]

On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:48:21PM -0700, Preston C. wrote:
> > What is your fstab line?
> > Please, post also the output of the command "id".
> >
> 
> /dev/sdc1 /media/externalhd   ntfs    defaults,rw   0      0

Didn't you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support?

You should give at least:
users,uid=1000,gid=100
See the wiki or better "man ntfs-3g" for the meaning.


And, quoting Gregory:
"This does require that you have ntfs-3g installed, and set to SUID root
(chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g)"

If you don't want to change permissions to /bin/ntfs-3g, you have to
mount as root.


> uid=0(root) gid=0(root)
> groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),19(log)
I meant the user id, not root; btw your uid and gid shoud match those in
fstab.

Hope this helps.

PS: "chmod 777 -R /media/externalhd" is worthless. Leave drwxr-xr-x.