How to make win partition *user* readable/mountable ?

the best way to do this is
1. make sure the file /etc/fstab contains a line for each of your windows partitions that should look similar to this

depending on your partitioning - /dev/hdx according to the disk and partition number  - plus the directory for mounting has to exsist in /mnt
2. check if the file system in windows is fat32 (vfat in fstab) - things get a little more complicated when you have ntfs - if you want to be able to write to ntfs partitions, that is
3. add an item to your panel called 'Mount devices'
now you are set - when you click on a device in the launcher it either gets mounted or unmounted and shows in the file manager

Also don't forget to make a dir called '/mnt/win_c'.

I made the mistake of adding a line to fstab but I wasn't able too mount the partition, that was beacause I forgot to make a dir in the mnt section.

No this does not help me:
I had in my /etc/fstab line:
/dev/hda1        /mnt/win        ntfs        ro        1  0

which I changed to :
/dev/hda1        /mnt/win        ntfs        user,ro        1  0

I supposed that adding user to the 4th row will do my win partition
*user* mountable/readable. Now I can only  see my win partition as *root*.
$ls -l
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    2 2002-03-16 09:34 floppy/
dr-x------  1 root root 8,0K 2006-03-04 02:30 win/

As you see I dont have permissions to read /mnt/win as user.

What is wrong?

the

part is important - but you want to mount a ntfs partition - so most probably you want to read here first

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/

since writing to ntfs partitions is a whole new ballgame in linux - sometimes it is better to create a fat32 data partition for easier handling 

I dont care much about writing to ntfs.
I do need only to read from ntfs.

I have my pictures on win partition. It is unconvinient to su root only to see pictures !

As I earlier mentioned  I already have:

in my /etc/fstab
Yes I can (as usual user) to mount /mnt/win.  But I cannot read my newly mounted /mnt/win !!

How can I change permissions ?  (chmod does not help)

Try



jpf

Yes !!! That did the trick !  Thank you !