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

[Pastorn]

Instructions to build pmount (for removable device only) for Amd 64 in edgy :

deb-srs http://flomertens.keo.in/ubuntu/ edgy main-all

Tell me to know how it worked.

Well this time it did't work
I did reinstall my computer and followed your how-to again
it works with the normal disks, but not with my USBdisk.
Last time I think I missed this part about pmount AMD64 in edgy, and it worked. This time I followed your post, and now I don't get it to work
(I changed "deb-srs" to "deb-src" otherwise it didn't work att all)

Well the disk is mounted writeprotected

[givré]

(I changed "deb-srs" to "deb-src" otherwise it didn't work att all)

Wha, stupid me 8) .

Hum, can you give me

sudo apt-cache policy pmount

and what return you :

pmount -d /dev/sda1

Thanks

[szaka]

Ahh... I vaguely remember choosing the cluster size when partitioning...
Thanks again for ntfs-3g and the bug-hunting is the least I can do in return!

It should be fixed now and a patch is available at http://www.ntfs-3g.org/big-cluster-size-fix.diff

A new driver will be also released in the following days. Thank you for the help!

[maximilian35]

It works on my system 2.6.15-23-386 kernel and ubuntu dapper drake 6.06.
Great work thanks

[Mach1US]

I have recently upgraded to bigger HD so i had to use partimage to move my ubuntu install to new hardware.
Backup and restore worked fine but now i can not get to or mount my windows partition .
When i click on shortcut i have made to xp file i get the message :
Could not show 'file:///media/NTFS/Documents0x0.00000bfd46a84p-1022nd\U08338ed0\U082c79b0\U08338968\U082e2f58etti ngs/d6000/Desktop'
Any clues what is wrong?

[Mach1US]

I think my problem is with the way Edgy is setting up fstab file , namely the part where it uses what i think is some type of identifier like " UUID=247847B97847890E " .
Since i have migrated to larger storage the identifier has most likely changed while partimage has retained exact copy in the process of copying from one drive to another.
I kept same xp copy and same patition setup allowing the partitions to be enlarged to new space
I did try to mount it with pmount-hal /dev/hda2 but i get:
Error: given UDI is not a mountable volume
I have tried reinstalling ntfs-3g , running whole process over and over with no results.
Can any body hint me on how or where to find this value or to another way to crunch it.

[Mach1US]

Just to post a solution.
I`m still not sure what was the exact cause of this glitch but basically unmounting everything (sudo umount -a) and creating new mount location (sudo mkdir /media/<another.file> ) and finally editing /etc/fstab following page 1 of this howto did fixed the problem completely .
By the way this HOWTO method works fantastically on new installations.

[the_javu]

Info for people having problem with konqueror ("unknown error ocurred").
If

pmount-hal /dev/sda1

(for example) works for you, but konqueror fails to access the drive, then the simplest solution is to install ivman

sudo apt-get install ivman

and add it to kde autostart

ln -s /usr/bin/ivman ~/.kde/Autostart/ivman

I found this solution on this Mepis forum.
Worked for me.
Modification of /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf listed here didn't.

[SpUpUz]

givrè what about ntfs-3g on feisty?

[humphry]

givre, first I just want to thank you for putting this together. It's wonderful. Here's my problem:

I set it up last week and it worked perfectly--I could access everything I needed to. Since then I've done some modifications to my system--standard updates to beryl, gtk, etc. Today when I started up I got a different screen: it said that my drives have been mounted 30 times without a check and it's going to force a check. There was nothing I could see to stop it (not that I wanted to) so I let it go on its way. However, now I can't access either of my other 2 partitions--windows and diagnostic. I've tried reinstalling ntfs-3g, reverting back to my old fstab and recopying the information line, nothing seems to work. By the way, those partitions are just fine--I can boot into windows without a problem, and the diagnostics work. I just can't access them from Ubuntu (Edgy) .

Any ideas?

Thanks!