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Can't mount ntfs disk with the certain set of permissions (root's ones)

I need to mount an ntfs disk with the certain permission and for an user alex be able to have the same as root would have. Here is my file /etc/fstab /dev/sda2 /media/win_disk ntfs-3g ...
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Windows won't boot after using chown on windows partition

I was following this: Mount NTFS partition at startup, with non-root user as owner to be able to use permissions with my NTFS partitions without having to change owner to "root". I did what the ...
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How to change NTFS ACLs on linux?

It is not about samba configuration, I want to change Windows permissions on a external NTFS drive, or another partition in my PC whose runs Windows, or even a network directory (but my PC is not the ...
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NTFS-3G permissions and inherit fstab flag

I'm trying to user a NTFS filesystem with full ACS's set just like windows. Everything is working fine except the permissions set to created files. Here is my environment: fstab: ...
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Unable to make files executable (on ntfs filesystem mounted as rw)

I'm baffled. I've looked around for awhile on this but nobody seems to have quite the issue I do. I have an ntfs partition for all of my stuff, and I want to run some programs off of it. However, I ...
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Not able to change permission of a file to add +x [duplicate]

I am not able to understand what is the issue here ? vks@vksTP:~/dropbox/shells$ ll sssh.sh -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1218 Mar 17 17:58 sssh.sh vks@vksTP:~/dropbox/shells$ sudo chmod +x sssh.sh ...
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Problem when changing permissions of a folder in a NTFS filesystem

While trying to make a DAAP server work, with tangerine, I realized that my music library doesn't has read permissions for all users, but has all the permissions for the owner and the group (tangerine ...
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Unable to Use External Hard Drive (NTFS Formatted)

I installed Lubuntu 12.10 earlier today on an old machine I have lying around. I've never really used this variation of Ubuntu before and was hoping I could get some (straightforward) steps on how to ...
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Most suitable permissions for mounted internal disk shared with Windows?

I've been using Ubuntu/Linux for a few years now but I'm still learning.. I've just updated to 12.10 after installing a Samsung 830 128GB SSD which has Windows and Ubuntu OS's dualboot on it. My old ...
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Configuring mongo DB to work with NTFS drive

I have 120 GB SSD Drive with two partitions (NTFS with Windows and ext4 with Ubintu) and 2TB NTFS HDD shared between Windows and Ubuntu. I configured my HDD to be properly mounted on system boot: # ...
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How to get permissions to compile a C program from NTFS hard drive?

I have this problem: I'm used to compile and run .c files with codeblocks. If I do that from my Desktop (ext partition) it works without problems, but doing this from my secondary hard drive (NTFS ...
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chmod and chown a remote NTFS filesystem both fail

Our Ubuntu Server 12.04 system has a remote NTFS filesystem mounted via Samba at /media/blarg. One of our users had problems writing to the remote system, but not reading from it. Since the ...
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help setting permission for partition

I've a NTFS partition on my PC, it shares data between Linux and a Windows dual boot system. My /etc/fstab line for that is: #Mount Dati at boot= UUID=01CD9E64E80BD460 /mnt/Dati ntfs ...
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Permissions on automounted NTFS drive

I have an external NTFS hard drive. It automounts with rwx rights for the active user. I am able to create directories, update files, write to existing files, change names of files, etc. What isn't ...
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All files on automounted NTFS partition are marked as executable

I have set up an NTFS partition to automount via fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with ...
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How do i restrict user to make changes to NTFS partition ? (in easy steps)? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How to restrict access to a NTFS partition to a standard (non-admin) user? I have 5 NTFS partition on single hard disk where ubuntu is also installed. I want to restrict ...
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Why does everything keep changing back to root ownership (NTFS)?

I've tried EVERYTHING to get my files back into my name, but all I seem to do is add MORE files to Root ownership every time I try to fix things. It starts with getting my 2 ntfs partitions to ...
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NTFS file system has become read only after running Gparted

I installed Gparted and all my ntfs file systems have become read-only.I tried the solution given here How to change permissions to the other drives in a hard disk?, using pysdm, but I'm unable to ...
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Ubuntu took away permissions from my Data partition

The pangolin has struck again. The bug of the day for today is Ubuntu taking away my permissions on my Data partition (NTFS). One moment everything worked fine, the next moment I couldn't chmod ...
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External Hard Drive mounting with no write permissions [closed]

I installed ntfsprogs to fix a problem in a external HD, now ALL my external HD are being automatically mounted with read-only permission. I can mount with write permission if I use the ntfsmount ...
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Can't write to NTFS formatted drives

I'm not sure what has happened, but I've all of a sudden lost write access to any of my NTFS external drives. I installed a few games and apps from the software center, and now I can't make new ...
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Mount NTFS partition at startup, with non-root user as owner

I'm currently mounting an NTFS partition at startup using the following line in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda3 /media/data ntfs nls=iso8859-1,umask=000 To my Ubuntu 11.10 installation, ...
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Any way of maintaining permissions when using NTFS mounted drive in Ubuntu?

In my web development work, I use Ubuntu almost exclusively. But there are occasions where I need to boot up Windows -- to check a layout in IE, to reslice a comp in Photoshop -- and I want to be able ...
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NTFS exec mount rights [closed]

I have a problem: To let binaries run right from my NTFS flashdrive, I have to umount it and then manually mount (namely, $ mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /media/Flash works well). I don't want to hardcode ...
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Lost all permissions to my NTFS partition

I have lost "Write" permission for myself, and all other permissions for 'Others' and 'Group' on my important NTFS Partition(Contains all my Data). Any amount of Chmod(ing) or using the GUI to set it ...
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GUI for setfacl or other NTFS equivalents?

I would like to setup a small office network based on ubuntu machines to replace the current based on windows. One of the requirements is to setup a samba share for file sharing. The problem is that ...
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Why does Ubuntu refuse to execute files from an NTFS partition?

I mount an NTFS partition (where I've got some Linux binaries and scripts alongside with Win32 and data files) with the following fstab line: /dev/sda5 /mnt/dat ntfs-3g ...
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Access NTFS partitions without providing root password?

I have Ubuntu and Windows Vista installed on the same disk, different partitions. I can access the Windows data, but each (first) time I access the NTFS partition, the system asks me for root ...
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Permanently mounting Windows' NTFS partition, fully enabled

I'm transforming a Windows 7 PC into a dual boot system with Ubuntu 10.10. Following other questions on this site, I've mounted my Windows drive by adding this to fstab UUID=blabla /windows ntfs ...
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How to write an fstab line for full access to an NTFS drive?

I've written: /dev/sda2 /win ntfs-3g rw,dev,exec,auto,async,users,umask=777,uid=1000,gid=1000,locale=en_US.utf8, errors=remount-ro 0 0 but I still can't access /win as a user (corresponding to ...
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.exe file permission fail

I'm trying to run a exe file that is located on my Vista partition, when I browse to the file and try to change the file to run as executable the tick box unticks itself right after i tick it, i tried ...
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How to 'chmod' on an NTFS ( or FAT32 ) partition?

I have a script that I need to execute on an NTFS partition. The script's permission is set to 600. I attempted to modify the permissions by running chmod 755 script.sh, which doesn't report a ...
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Mounting NTFS as read-only

My PC have 3 NTFS partitions (main and backups) plus Ubuntu on dual boot. I want to keep NTFS partitions available, but mounted as read-only by default, so that other users (and accidentally even me) ...