HOWTO: Mount NTFS volumes with write support

[Noahod]

Nope, that broke write support completely.

sudo cp libortp1_0.7.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb /media/windows/
Password:
cp: cannot create regular file `/media/windows/libortp1_0.7.1-0ubuntu1_i386.deb': Input/output error

And from my fstab:

/dev/sdb1 /media/windows ntfs-fuse auto,gid=1001,umask=0007,succeed_chmod 0 0

Read support still works, and it did mount.

[LKRaider]

Try writting at another folder. Fuse-ntfs sometimes fails to write on some of them, and should be unrelated to succeed_chmod.

[detinith]

The drives I want mounted and read/writeable are shown in the Computer directory but I can't mount because it says:

mount: only root can mount /dev/sda5 on /media/sda5

When I try

 sudo mount /dev/sda5

I get an error

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-fuse'

I tried the command to fix the Dapper bug but it says that the directory doesn't exist. I am using Dapper, so is there something I didn't have installed that I needed?

If it helps at all, here are the lines in my fstab:

/dev/sda1       /media/sda1     ntfs-fuse    auto,umask=0007,gid=1001 0       1
/dev/sda5       /media/sda5     ntfs-fuse    auto,umask=0007,gid=1001 0       1

[mlind]

I get an error

mount: unknown filesystem type 'ntfs-fuse'

If you check /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse file, you'll notice it's a broken symlink. You must make it point to the right file

sudo ln -df /usr/bin/ntfsmount /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse

Now ntfs-fuse filesystem should be recognized.

[Noahod]

Try writting at another folder. Fuse-ntfs sometimes fails to write on some of them, and should be unrelated to succeed_chmod.

I tried another folder, and it wrote to it this time, but gave the same permission error as before.

[detinith]

If you check /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse file, you'll notice it's a broken symlink. You must make it point to the right file

sudo ln -df /usr/bin/ntfsmount /sbin/mount.ntfs-fuse

Now ntfs-fuse filesystem should be recognized.

It says the directory doesn't exist.

[mlind]

It says the directory doesn't exist.

dpkg -S /usr/bin/ntfsmount
ntfsprogs: /usr/bin/ntfsmount

You did install ntfsprogs package too?
(step II on the HOWTO)

[glycerin]

I have followed these instructions but I am finding that upon reboot my files/folders become corrupt. I have created a full explanation here:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...83#post1244183

Please help if you can.

EDIT: Sorted it out - thanks LKRaider

[claypole]

Having succesfully set this up (seems to be working fine albeit I haven't done any major file creation editing yet) I experienced one problem in relation to fuse: for some reason /dev/fuse is not created. After seaching countless sites I found the solution, this command "sudo mknod /dev/fuse c 10 229" followed by a "sudo mount -a" will correct the problem. Everytime you reboot you have to do this, so I have created a text file in my home directory, below, and have put this in the startup (system > preferences > sessions > startup programs. Not the most elegant fix, but until Fuse and/or Ubuntu resolve this, this works. If anyone is aware of a better way or something I am doing wrong, please advise!

File: /home/correct-fuse


mknod /dev/fuse c 10 229
mount -a



Hope this helps!

Another problem I am now experiencing is that I can no longer see my windows PCs on the network using SMB. This used to work fine, so I am wondering if the NTFS solution has broken this. The only doc I can find says that Fuse no longer supports SMB as its not required. I have loaded Samba and included the IP address of the PC on my firewall but it cannot see the PC or the shares. Can anyone advise?

[domino]

Here's something of interest, which requires FUSE.

http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/f...&forum_id=2697

Hello,

As part of the Linux-NTFS project, I'm happy to announce my contribution
to ntfsmount and libntfs which resulted ntfs-3g, a read-write ntfs driver,
capable for unlimited file creation and deletion.

The driver was successfully tested very exhaustively for a longer period of
time by many ways and methods, creating and destroying millions of files and
directories on newly created images, and on over 40 real, very diverse NTFS
images collected over the last four years.

I hope ntfs-3g can be used on top of the tutorial. I tried to install ntfs-3g but got 3 errors along the way. I hope someone has better success with it.

edit: Is it the reason why I got install errors because of an earlier version of fuse installed?