ntfs-config

ntfs-config restricts mount privileges to root

Asked by Strahinja Lukic

I want my ubuntu to automatically mount the windows partition and bind (mount --bind ...) "My Documents" to a subfolder in my home folder at startup. I thought that ntfs-config would help. It does the automatic mounting, but it restricts mount privileges to root, so that my .profile can not bind "My Documents" anymore. I now have to sudo from the terminal and enter password to do the binding.

Before using ntfs-config, I was able to mount the windows partition as user. Is there a way to restore that again?

A suggestion for the further development of ntfs-config: Introduce the possibility to bind folders from the ntfs filesystem, possibly also to use other useful mount options.

Cheers,
Straja

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Florent Mertens (givre) said : 		#1

Suggestion 1: Instead of binding, create a symlink.
Suggestion 2: Mount your partition directly to the location you want. ntfs-config will not be able to do that, but you can edit manually /etc/fstab. Google will help you if you don't know what is the fstab file.

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Strahinja Lukic (strahinjalukic) said : 		#2

Thanks for the reply.

I know what is fstab, and I have edited it to mount the partition directly, but it does not help. The partition appears in "places", but clicking on it gives the following error message:

Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS block devices using the external FUSE
library. Either mount the volume as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated
FUSE support and make it setuid root. Please see more information at
http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged

I don't know what is symlink, I will try to figure that out.

I would like to be able to quickly access "My Documents" from the Terminal without having to type the whole windows path. Binding solves that rather nicely. I made a patch file to do the binding, and it is a fine workaround, but not as good as if everything worked automatically at startup.

S.

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Best Florent Mertens (givre) said : 		#3

  It seams that what you are really looking for is symlink.
It is similar to shortcut in windows. If you are ok with the terminal,
look at man ln.

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Strahinja Lukic (strahinjalukic) said : 		#4

Ok, I did it and I like the solution.

I might need restore user privileges for mounting the windows partition some time in the future, but at the moment it's fine like this

Thanks again.

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Strahinja Lukic (strahinjalukic) said : 		#5

Thanks Florent Mertens, that solved my question.