HOWTO: Mount NTFS volumes with write support

Please refer to this thread now: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=217009

This guide is outdated since there is a new and better ntfs supporting driver now.


Moderator, please close this thread.

ntfs-3g will be better

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Originally Posted by Triple Threat

I am getting a completely different error then what I have seen in this topic. I have a feeling I entered something in wrong. Here is my fstab:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs notail 0 1
/dev/hda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

/dev/hda1 /media/windows ntfs-fuse auto,gid=1001,unmask=0000 0 0
/dev/hda5 /media/data ntfs-fuse auto,gid=1001,unmask=0000 0 0


This is what I get when I run sudo mount -a

sudo mount -a
fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument
fuse_mount failed.
Unmounting:
fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument
fuse_mount failed.
Unmounting: Data
aaberg@reginald:~$ sudo mount -a
fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument
fuse_mount failed.
Unmounting:
fusermount: mount failed: Invalid argument
fuse_mount failed.
Unmounting: Data

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It's possible that you may be attempting to mount to a symbolic link.

This information came from a google search result (but, I couldn't find the text on the real web site).

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NTFS-3G Release History at Tuxera
Fix: Mount failed with “Invalid argument” error message if the mountpoint was a symlink. If NTFS-3G is compiled with an external FUSE library (non-default ...
www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/ - Cached

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