Mounting NTFS in openSUSE
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Do you use openSUSE 11.0 and have a portable hard drive that you use between a Windows XP/Vista/etc. system and it? Then it is likely that the portable HD is formatted using NTFS and it is also likely that it is being mounted as read-only by default in openSUSE.
Why? This openSUSE NTFS page explains why. And in case that page ever gets changed or removed, the solution to automatically mount removable NTFS media read-write by a non-root user is to:
cd /sbin sudo ln -s mount.ntfs-3g mount.ntfs
root user should automatically mount those as read-write by default. To revert to default behavior, simply delete the symlink. Also, to mount non-removable “permanent” media as read-write, edit /etc/fstab and set dmask=002 for the desired NTFS entries. Default entry for reference is dmask=022.
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Comment by RaiulBaztepo March 30, 2009 @ 8:10 amVery Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language
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