What are default fstab mount settings for Windows partition?

[mimosa]

A user on the Italian forum has got umask=077. Is that what you would normally end up with, if you selected mounting the Windows partition during installation? Or has it been changed somehow? I'm suggesting to him a umask of 022.

[thenktor]

I don't know the default options, but if you want non root users to have write access you should use umask 022.

[pwatk]

I use the following:

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/dev/sda3        /mnt/Windows     ntfs-3g     defaults,uid=pwatk,gid=root 0   0

[mimosa]

Zievatron has now got access to the partition with umask=022,users - and uploaded a rather fetching feline avatar from it to the forum. But I'm curious as to whether the setting umask=077 was an unintended alteration, or actually the result you're supposed to get if, during installation, you choose to have an entry created for the Windows partition in /etc/fstab - that is, is that what the installer is meant to do? Because with those permissions, only root has any access at all, so as far as I can see you might as well not bother.

Now there's Gmountman, too

[laprjns]

But I'm curious as to whether the setting umask=077 was an unintended alteration, or actually the result you're supposed to get if, during installation, you choose to have an entry created for the Windows partition in /etc/fstab - that is, is that what the installer is meant to do?

Here is what I get when I tell the installer to add a fstab entry.

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/dev/sda1        /Vista           ntfs-3g     umask=022        1   0

[Shador]

I've been always just using this without problems:

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/dev/sda5        /media/data      ntfs-3g     defaults         0   2

[mimosa]

Thanks!

Hm, wonder how that happened, then?