Re: WD Passport commands

From	Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject	Re: WD Passport commands
Followup-To	comp.os.linux.hardware
Date	2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Strider
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On Saturday 17 November 2012 14:44, J G Miller conveyed the following to 
comp.os.linux.hardware...

> On Saturday, November 17th, 2012, at 05:57:36h -0500, Haines Brown
> wrote:
> 
>> Tried uid and gid didn't help.
> 
> You need something like this in your /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/C          ntfs   
> defaults,gid=46,locale=en_US.utf8,umask=022             0 0
> 
> where the numbers specfied for gid and uid and found from /etc/passwd
> and /etc/group.

Just for the record, if the filesystem is to be mounted under his 
"normal" UID and GID, then he can also ascertain this information by 
using the command...

   id

> Do not forget that after changing the fstab you need to remount the
> file system in order to see the change.

Yes.  They are mount time options and /etc/fstab is only read when the 
filesystem is (re)mounted.

-- 
= Aragorn =
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Thread

WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-05 23:08 -0500
  Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-06 08:50 +0000
  Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-16 15:31 -0500
    Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-16 21:32 +0000
      Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 05:57 -0500
        Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-17 13:44 +0000
          Re: WD Passport commands Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2012-11-17 19:19 +0100
          Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-17 13:25 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-17 20:30 +0000
              Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 05:03 -0500
                Re: WD Passport commands Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2012-11-20 10:25 +0000
                Re: WD Passport commands Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2012-11-20 11:27 -0500
            Re: WD Passport commands J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2012-11-18 18:16 +0000
            Re: WD Passport commands Bill Marcum <bill@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-11-19 03:03 -0500

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