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How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only

Bug #62070 reported by Kevin Miramon
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Bug Description

Append the following line at the end of file:

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs umask=0222 0 0

[Note]

Replace /dev/hda1 with the correct device name for your partition.

If your Windows partition uses the FAT32 filesystem, replace ntfs with vfat in the above command.

If you have a FAT32 filesystem, it is also safe to allow read-write access. To do this, change the value of umask to 0000.
From both the official guide and the unofficial desktop guide they omit the ro attribute. Making this would make it so the user could not possibly read/write to an NTFS partition.
Kevin Miramon
Heres exactly how some of my mnt/windows_ directories are writen
/dev/hde1 on /mnt/windows_c type ntfs (ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=1000,gid=1000)/dev/hde5 on /mnt/windows_e type ntfs (ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=1000,gid=1000)/dev/hde6 on /mnt/windows_f type ntfs (ro,nls=utf8,umask=0222,uid=1000,gid=1000)/dev

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towsonu2003 (towsonu2003) wrote :

> Append the following line at the end of file

thanks for the bug report. could you please provide some more info? such as, which part of the documentation you see this issue?

Changed in ubuntu-doc:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Kevin Miramon (miramonkm20) wrote : Re: [Bug 62070] Re: How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only

I am not sure exactly where my initial bug in the documentation report lives in launch pad but I think there is an explicit need to set the ro variable in fstab for an ntfs partition as when I followed the directions here the NTFS drive was labeled rw in properties. I am not sure but umask=0222 is implied in the documentation to prevent this. I will hunt my bug report down.
I got the information here
https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/desktopguide/C/partitions-booting.html
and I think it may be in a few other places at www.ubuntu.com.
Thank you
Kevin Miramon

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Subject: [Bug 62070] Re: How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only

> Append the following line at the end of file

thanks for the bug report. could you please provide some more info? such
as, which part of the documentation you see this issue?

** Changed in: ubuntu-doc (upstream)
       Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info

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How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62070

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

We are deleting the section where this bug disappears on the basis that the installer now configures this automatically. Thanks for your report though, please feel free to report any other issues you find.

Changed in ubuntu-doc:
status: Needs Info → Fix Released
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Kevin Miramon (miramonkm20) wrote :

Hmm maybe the ro attribute with the settings should be left in there as many users as this involves setting up a multi boot or multi partition system. Does the installer take that into account for as system with windows NTFS on one partition and linux ext3 on another?
Kev

----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew East <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Monday, December 25, 2006 5:01:58 PM
Subject: [Bug 62070] Re: How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only

We are deleting the section where this bug disappears on the basis that
the installer now configures this automatically. Thanks for your report
though, please feel free to report any other issues you find.

** Changed in: ubuntu-doc (upstream)
       Status: Needs Info => Fix Released

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How to mount/unmount Windows partitions (NTFS) manually, and allow all users to read only
https://launchpad.net/bugs/62070

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Matthew East (mdke) wrote :

Kevin - the installer configures other partitions automatically, and these are mounted with the correct permissions when botting Ubuntu.

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