I have 4 drives in my (yes, physically in the box, sata connected) Ubuntu 10.10 system with xampp installed at the /opt/lampp/ dir on the OS drive. The OS drive (ssd, lets call it drive1 for sanity) has the correct file permissions to allow for PHP (user www-data) to read/write to any of my htdocs and vhosts folder(s).

Here is my fstab file:

UUID=552A7C6B05CEAAD2 /media/v1tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0

UUID=DE58539158536775 /media/v1.5tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0

UUID=3D80C54D5D100280 /media/v2.0tb ntfs-3g defaults,uid=1000 0 0

Also, I tried to use the following and it copies just fine:

sudo -u www-data cp '/media/v2.0tb/path/to/file' '/media/v2.0tb/path/to/newfile'

What I failed to notice all this time is that the string I was passing to my copy/rename function had a space in it and wasn't encapsulated in " as it should have been due to loose type casting of php.

Thanks for all of the help!