mount a NT partition
Rob Tanner
rtanner at linfield.edu
Sun Oct 22 05:49:47 GMT 2000
--On 10/21/00 02:20:06 PM +0000 Subba Rao <subb3 at attglobal.net> wrote:
>
> What file system is the NT FS? FAT or NTFS? I was adviced not to mount
> NTFS system on to Linux. They are ok to be mounted in readonly mode
> but not in readwrite mode.
>
> Please correct me if that is not an issue now.
>
Unless I've just been lucky, it's not a problem (or not a problem
anymore). I'm the local perl guru (and have been much more successful
at evangalizing the use of perl than at getting others to learn it) and
so I write a lot of Win32 sys admin stuff that runs on the PDC. Since
I'll be [censored] if I'll use the inept tools that come standard on
NT, I regularly mount partitions off the PDC rw on my linux box (redhat
6.2), and have been doing so for the last several months with no
negative side-effects *at least that we've noticed).
I was a bit too generous with the scissors. In part of what I cut out
above someone mentioned you need to be root, etc, and appeared to make
to the process rather convoluted. I simply added an entry in
/etc/fstab as follows:
//<host>/<share> <mount-point> smbfs noauto,user 0 0
The shares I mount require you to have admin privleges (which I do) and
I only need enter "mount <mount-point>" as me, not root. I get
prompted for a password and it mounts. If you're using the Linux box
as a multiuser system allowing an unprivleged user to mount might be an
issue -- they nevertheless still have to have the right privs on the NT
-- but on a single-user system such as my personal workstation, it's a
non-issue.
-- Rob
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Rob Tanner
UNIX and Networks Manager
Linfield College, McMinnville OR
(503) 434-2558 <rtanner at linfield.edu>
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