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

[givré]

reboot

[givré]

Ok that's done.
- Latest ntfs-3g is in main
- ntfs-config is in main-all
So now you have the choice between an autmatic installation via ntfs-config & a manual installation.
Great, now i think i'll sleep a bit

[Souljah]

reboot

Givre, I have done that many times. You see, when I installed ubuntu by default windows was all ready mounted and on my desktop it showed "local disk" however after changing that, local disk does not show anymore.I can't access it in "computer" either. So what do I do?

[giruzz]

Ok that's done.
- Latest ntfs-3g is in main
- ntfs-config is in main-all
So now you have the choice between an autmatic installation via ntfs-config & a manual installation.
Great, now i think i'll sleep a bit

Well...sorry but I can't let you sleep

got this error right now:

Setting ntfs-3g suid root with group fuse...done
Users from 'fuse' group can now mount NTFS volume.

=====================================================
Warning : Your current fuse module doesn't support fuseblk.
To work at his full capability, ntfs-3g need a new fuse module.

Please, have a look at /usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.Debian to
know how to do that.

Thanks.
=====================================================

/var/lib/dpkg/info/ntfs-3g.postinst: 48: cannot create /var/lib/update-notifier/user.d/new-fuse-needed: Directory nonexistent
dpkg: error processing ntfs-3g (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 ntfs-3g

I'm a bit scared about doing anything that could wipe out my 25gb of porn

Can anyone help me?

bye

g.

[MilesTEG1]

Hello,
my repo is update now.
Thanks to givré.

[givré]

Also the "subprocess post-installation script returned error" is a bug that i'll fix. I'll also try to make the message less scary.

Ok that's done.

[givré]

Givre, I have done that many times. You see, when I installed ubuntu by default windows was all ready mounted and on my desktop it showed "local disk" however after changing that, local disk does not show anymore.I can't access it in "computer" either. So what do I do?

Your mtab shows that your partition was still mounted with the kernel driver, even if it was configure with ntfs-3g in fstab, so of course it was like you didn't remount it. If you didn't do anything else, there is no other reason.
Anyway, try that in a terminal :

sudo umount /media/hda1
sudo mount /media/hda1

[Souljah]

Your mtab shows that your partition was still mounted with the kernel driver, even if it was configure with ntfs-3g in fstab, so of course it was like you didn't remount it. If you didn't do anything else, there is no other reason.
Anyway, try that in a terminal :

sudo umount /media/hda1
sudo mount /media/hda1

Givre,

What I did was I basically uninstalled and reinstalled ntfs-3g and did all updates for synaptic. This is the command I entered to install Ntfs-config:

sudo aptitude install ntfs-config

. Reason I switched from apt-get to aptitude because it returned the same errors. Anyway, here is the whole list:

Errors were encountered while processing:
 selinux-policy-default
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up selinux-policy-default (1.26-7) ...
cat: /selinux/policyvers: No such file or directory
Compiling policy ...
policyvers value 0 not in range 15-20
usage:  /usr/bin/checkpolicy [-b] [-d] [-M] [-c policyvers (15-20)] [-o output_file] [input_file]
make: *** [/etc/selinux/./policy/policy.] Error 1
dpkg: error processing selinux-policy-default (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 selinux-policy-default

Also, it tells me this before:

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  fuse-utils
The following packages have been kept back:
  libfuse2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libntfs-3g0 ntfs-3g ntfs-config
1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 217kB of archives. After unpacking 598kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  fuse-utils: Depends: makedev (>= 2.3.1-80) but 2.3.1-79ubuntu1 is installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
fuse-utils [2.5.3-1 (now)]
ntfs-3g [Not Installed]
ntfs-config [Not Installed]

So what exactly is wrong here and what is selinux and giving me errors?

[givré]

Errors were encountered while processing:
 selinux-policy-default
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install.  Trying to recover:
Setting up selinux-policy-default (1.26-7) ...
cat: /selinux/policyvers: No such file or directory
Compiling policy ...
policyvers value 0 not in range 15-20
usage:  /usr/bin/checkpolicy [-b] [-d] [-M] [-c policyvers (15-20)] [-o output_file] [input_file]
make: *** [/etc/selinux/./policy/policy.] Error 1
dpkg: error processing selinux-policy-default (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2
Errors were encountered while processing:
 selinux-policy-default

This seams to be an old problem, not related to ntfs-3g at all.

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading extended state information
Initialising package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following packages are BROKEN:
  fuse-utils
The following packages have been kept back:
  libfuse2
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libntfs-3g0 ntfs-3g ntfs-config
1 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
Need to get 217kB of archives. After unpacking 598kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  fuse-utils: Depends: makedev (>= 2.3.1-80) but 2.3.1-79ubuntu1 is installed.
Resolving dependencies...
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

Keep the following packages at their current version:
fuse-utils [2.5.3-1 (now)]
ntfs-3g [Not Installed]
ntfs-config [Not Installed]

This one is more interesting, and i'll investigate that. Thanks.

[givré]

Ok, found the problem.
It seams that dapper makedev don't have the fuse target require by the postinst script.
I'll backport edgy one, that should make it work.
Wait few minutes and update again. Thanks.