HOWTO: NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)

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Originally Posted by givré

When i said 'don't worry', it was just to say, 'don't care of the error AND edit the file like said in step 3'
If you have real problem opening gedit, use nano instead

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sudo nano /etc/fstab

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That's less userfriendly but it will work for sure.
You probably mess your .ICEauthaurity (i'll give you a tip if it's really that)

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Ok I am stuck then.
The mkdir/....winders/etc/fstab command returns
command not found.
I quess I am entering it wrong in terminal ?

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Originally Posted by jjtechno

Ok I am stuck then.
The mkdir/....winders/etc/fstab command returns
command not found.
I quess I am entering it wrong in terminal ?

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n:~$ sudo mkdir /media/windowz/ etc/fstab
Password:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/windowz/': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `etc/fstab': No such file or directory

Like domino wrote, I only got one ntfs partition, my Lacie external usbdrive

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Originally Posted by jjtechno

n:~$ sudo mkdir /media/windowz/ etc/fstab
Password:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/windowz/': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `etc/fstab': No such file or directory

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You've already created /media/windowz directoy as mount point. You're supposed to edit /etc/fstab, not create one.

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Originally Posted by jjtechno

n:~$ sudo mkdir /media/windowz/ etc/fstab
Password:
mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/windowz/': File exists
mkdir: cannot create directory `etc/fstab': No such file or directory

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it helps if winders is windowz and I pay a bit more attention.
Thanks for the help! It's working,excellent.

@ givre, my fstab looks like:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
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# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda6 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

/dev/sda5 /media/Windows ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
mtab:
/dev/sda3 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=andrew 0 0
Thanks for the quick reply btw
Thanks!

It's looks like your windows partion is not mounted. Try

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sudo mount /dev/sda5

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STOP Using ntfs-3g - if u don't want ur data corrupted
i got my data corrupted by using ntfs-3g driver in Ubuntu ...](*,)

i just wanted delete a directory in a ntfs partition and was prompted by nautilus that i can't delete a non-empty directory. however after deleting all files in that directoy, i found i still could not delete it and got an error. then i changed to windowsXP, also got similar errors when to delete, move or rename it.

here's the error dialog box. it says "can't delete xxxxx(name of the directory): the file or directoy is mangled and can't be read. ":(

maybe ntfs-3g really has "capable for unlimited file creation and deletion" ,but not for directory operation.

sorry for my poor English

@domino&Poka64 and for all other who want to try.
I found by reading the man, that we can pass a debuging option to pmount, that will show how pmount call the mount function. That's could be very helpfull if you try that

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pmount -d /dev/sd*

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and post here the output. You will see something like that

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Filesystem: 'ntfs-3g'
spawnv(): executing /bin/mount '/bin/mount' '-t' 'ntfs-3g' '-o' 'silent,async,atime,noexec,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=007' '/dev/sda1' '/media/sda1'

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check that /media/sda1 does not exist. If it exist, delete it and retry.
Thank you so much ;)

will do givré. In vista right now looking for an excuse to nuke it.

@superiori,

Sorry to hear you had a bad experience. These are my daily operations with ntfs-3g. I have an ext drive which i don't always have on and mounted. I have a 5gig FAT32 drive that I download all my hosting files and folders, hosting weekly backups, and a few hunder mb of torrents. When my 5gig FAT drive is filled, I move them to my ntfs ext drive. Before I move them, I delete old files and folders and replace them with the ones contained on the FAT32 partition. Not a single error so far. You can also look back a few pages and see benchmarks that were posted. I hope my luck continues.