Linspire Five-Oh! - How To Make Windows Partitions Accessible
Ever since I installed Linspire, I couldn’t figure out how to give standard users access to the other (windows) partitions on my computer. However, the admin user had access, but it’s a pain to always log in and out of that account just to copy over a few files, etc.
After some resarching and asking around on the Linspire forums, I was presented with the following answer:
- Open /etc/fstab with Kate or a similar text editor.
- Change the partition entries to include ‘umask=0′ in the options column (the 4th column that also has entries like ‘exec,suid,users’, etc.
- Save the file and to a quick restart.
Now your entries should look something like:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noatime,user,exec,dev,suid,umask=0 0 0
I would like to thank pvdl-of-afu.com of the Linspire forum, and all the others that made an effort to try to solve this dilemna. Also, I’d like to wish pvdl-of-afu.com all the best with his upcoming book on Linspire: http://afu.com!