On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 05:48:21PM -0700, Preston C. wrote: > > What is your fstab line? > > Please, post also the output of the command "id". > > > > /dev/sdc1 /media/externalhd ntfs defaults,rw 0 0 Didn't you read http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS_Write_Support? You should give at least: users,uid=1000,gid=100 See the wiki or better "man ntfs-3g" for the meaning. And, quoting Gregory: "This does require that you have ntfs-3g installed, and set to SUID root (chmod u+s /bin/ntfs-3g)" If you don't want to change permissions to /bin/ntfs-3g, you have to mount as root. > uid=0(root) gid=0(root) > groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys),4(adm),6(disk),10(wheel),19(log) I meant the user id, not root; btw your uid and gid shoud match those in fstab. Hope this helps. PS: "chmod 777 -R /media/externalhd" is worthless. Leave drwxr-xr-x.
