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im very new to debian and having problems accessing a mounted NTFS partition. I have a windows NTFS HD, with my mp3's on, and want to mount it.

i tried as normal user:

mkdir /windows
mkdir /windows/music

and then as root:

mount /dev/hdb5 /windows/music

the drive is mounted but i cannot access it.
im getting the message:

The folder contents could not be displayed
You do not have the permissions necessary to view the contents of "music"

With: Desktop > Administration > Disks
i can access the disk, using the Browse button.

I would like to auto mount the drive on boot, but if don't know how, and i even can't access it.

greetings
grasn

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Can't access mounted NTFS

Submitted by pinniped on Thu, 2007-10-18 16:44.

man mount

Then look at the options for ntfs. By default, only root can access it. The 'owner' (uid) should probably be left alone (0 = root), but you may want to alter the gid (group ID) to make it a group that you want to access the partition, then change the 'umask' to give read permission to that group. Unless you're using the latest 'ntfs-3g' drivers, I wouldn't recommend activating write access. On UNIX systems, you need 'execute' permission on the directories to be able to see what's in them.

Usually 'umask' is set to 022 (you need to type the first 0 so the machine interprets it as an octal number). That leaves root's permissions alone, but removes write permission from group/others.

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