Posted by schwarzemann on Sun 18 Sep 2005 at 12:25
I have recently installed Sarge on my PC with the intent on moving to Linux as my primary desktop OS. Since most of my Linux experience is with Red Hat 6.2 (as in I haven't really touched Linux since 1999), I am a little rusty and needless to say a few things have changed in the world of computers since then.
I have not been living without a computer all this time; just have not been using Linux. That being the case I have a decent amount of data stored on a second hard disk in my primary box.
When I installed the second drive I decided to format it w/NTFS, since I was using Windows2000 and making the move to XP. Unfortunately now I have some 100+ gigs worth of data that I cannot access from Linux, that is w/out logging in as root.
My question is this: What are the options/permissions required in "fstab" to allow a non-root user to mount, and more importantly read, an NTFS partition?
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