You can always sudo -s to stay in sudoer mode until you exit :) Nothing
else helpful to add sorry.
On 10/31/06, Dick Groot <dick.groot@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> yup typo... comes with the frustration. <grin>
>
> umask=0 is what i have in my fstab. -0 in my message.
>
> as far as my knowledge goes that should work just fine. Kbuntu is kinda
> strange to me... because you can not su to root... you have to do
> everything as a user and sudo <command> kinda like the new mac
>
> adding user allows me to mount the usb drive... but I cant write to the
> damn thing.
>
> On 10/31/06, Mark Smallwood < mark@omnivia.net> wrote:
> >
> > *Not sure if it's a typo in your message or your fstab, but it should
> > be umask=0.
> > Mark
> >
> > On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:30:40 -0600, Dick Groot wrote*
> > > Ok... I am starting to get frustrated...
> > >
> > > I am trying to mount a usb hard drive.... I tried adding /dev/sda1
> > /backup ntfs user,umask-0,noauto 0 0
> > >
> > > to my fstab... which works.. and when I do a fdisk-l It tells me
> > that I have something mounted under /backup
> > > and it tells me that it is rw. but I cant write to the damn thing.
> > aggg...
> > >
> > > any thought suggestions.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > Dick
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one"
> Albert Einstein
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