How to give root level access?

Question

When I tried to mount my hard drive following error got displayed. I am very new to linux. Please help.

mount /dev/sda2 /media/shashi/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222
mount: only root can do that

what should I do to give root level access?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 05 '13 at 11:18

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Use sudo:

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /media/shashi/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222

answered Jul 05 '13 at 11:18

Eric Carvalho

I did as you told @eric but following error caught me again.
Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. Failed to mount '/dev/sda2': Operation not permitted The NTFS partition is in an unsafe state. Please resume and shutdown Windows fully (no hibernation or fast restarting), or mount the volume read-only with the 'ro' mount option.
– Shashi Jul 06 '13 at 09:35
@Shashi See http://askubuntu.com/q/145902/65926 – Eric Carvalho Jul 06 '13 at 13:33
When I do this, the mounted folders are read only and I require root access just to change the contents of the mounted folders! Is there a method that doesn't involve crippling the feature? – Nuzzolilo Jan 02 '16 at 23:58

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 05 '13 at 16:29

You will have to mount the partition as root unless you add an entry to /etc/fstab

If you want to mount the partition as a user, without root access,

Open /etc/fstab as root. In a terminal, run

sudo nano /etc/fstab

At the bottom of the file add

/dev/sda2 /media/shashi/ ntfs users,noauto,nls=utf8,umask=0222 0 0

Change "noauto" to auto if you want it to automatically mount when you boot.

Then, make the mount point if it does not exist

sudo mkdir /media/shashi

Then you can mount as a user.

mount /media/shashi

For details see

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