HOWTO: Mount NTFS volumes with write support

[rubengs]

I'm getting this while I try to mount manually or by fstab my windows partition:

Couldn't mount device '/dev/hda1': Invalid argument
Mount failed.

I'm in dapper and have already made the bug fix mentioned before, my fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdg8       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdg5       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda1    /media/hda1    ntfs-fuse   auto,gid=1002,umask=0002    0    0
/dev/hda2       /media/hda2     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda3       /media/hda3     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hde1       /media/hde1     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdf1       /media/hdf1     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdg6       /media/hdg6     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdg9       /media/hdg9     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sda1       /media/sda1     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/sdb1       /media/sdb1     ext3    defaults        0       2
/dev/hdg7       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

[gasull]

As initially posted on the Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lkraider/NtfsFuse
3 - Edit the fstab file to mount the disks

bash:~$ gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

Add a line like this:

/dev/hda1    /media/hda1    ntfs-fuse    auto,gid=1002,umask=0002    0    0

If you want to read/write, use this line instead:

/dev/hda1 /mnt/c ntfs-fuse fmask=0111,dmask=0,succeed_chmod 0 0

Ref: http://wiki.linux-ntfs.org/doku.php?...12.1_and_later

[IainT]

This seems the appropriate thread to ask - how safe is this generally considered to be?

I did an install on an 80gb drive with 50gb NTFS and 30 ext3. Didn't bother with an FAT32 partition, which was probably stupid. I'm not in any way pushed for space, but it would be nice to write video and music files to the XP partition as I'm using Ubuntu 95% of the time now.

I don't want to fall victim to endless tinkering with what is essentially working and ending up with it all broken.

[l4v4_f10w]

nice one LKRAIDER, after doing chkdsk within my windows system it fixed allthe problems, cheers mate.

[brallan]

Does anyone know how the autodetect/automount for USB drives works enough to modify it so that ntfs drives are hot-mounted (dynamically) without needing an fstab entry? The problem with fstab is that is really best suited to permanent drives.

Write support for NTFS is fantastic, a great breakthrough for linux users. thanks to those heroes who reverse engineered and thanks to all who contribute!

brian

[hsn]

I cant seen to download:
# libfuse2
# fuse-utils

Files cannot be found on the server? Is there any place else I can download them from?

Thx.

[hsn]

Bump?

[LKRaider]

I fixed the links on the first post, as the packages were updated.

Whenever you need a package from any ubuntu version, you can search for it at http://packages.ubuntu.com .

[hsn]

Thank you.

I have a big problem. I followed the instructions, then I used the command to make it work immediately, and I forgot to log-out first. I tried opening a map but it just disapeared. Then I rebooted the machine, and all files are gone now. It says 8.1gb drive. But it's a partition above 130gb.

[johnbl]

Thank you for the how to. Worked though at all ' appeared ' to work. ntfs Group exists and user is member. Now I'm a newbie so sorry if this sounds stupid but what now. I STILL can't see the contents of the ntfs partions.. Mind you I do have an error on boot - " mounting kocal file systems FAILED " only reference I have been able to find to this message is in German thread however,,, in dark here.