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Newer page: version 14 Last edited on Sunday, July 30, 2006 1:49:23 pm by IanMcDonald Revert
Older page: version 13 Last edited on Sunday, July 30, 2006 12:21:16 pm by DanielLawson Revert
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 =/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat auto 0 0= 
  
 If you have multple hard discs, or an out-of-the-ordinary setup, you'll need to change /dev/hda1 to reflect the correct location of your partitions. 
  
-I had to do the following in my /etc/fstab to get it to work with a non-root user for [NTFS] -- IanMcDonald  
+You may be required to specify the user ID (uid) in = /etc/fstab= to get it to work with a non-root user for [NTFS] 
  
 =/dev/sda2 /ntfs ntfs user,uid=502 0 0= 
  
-The user allows the user to [Mount], unmount and the uid says that that user can access. 
+The user allows the user to [Mount], unmount and the uid says which user can access. 
  
-To get the uid in [IanMcDonald]'s post type: 
+To get the uid type: 
 =id username= 
 where username is replaced with your username, and the output will be something like: 
  
 <verbatim> 
 uid=1234(username) gid=1234(username) groups=1234(username),4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio), 
  30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),107(lpadmin),108(scanner),109(admin) 
 </verbatim> 
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