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

[domino]

Thanks for the new development . It works very well here. I only have one request for the next update.

- Refresh new pop-up nautilus window when mounting with ntfs-3g because nautilus still thinks it still does not have write permission.

[phatmatt]

I can't get this working with my external HD. My drive partition is named

/dev/sde1

So I entered the proper line in fstab because it didn't have a line (being a usb connected external harddrive). I told it to mount to /mnt/windows. When I get to the part where I'm supposed to sudo umount -a I get this error:

umount: /dev: device is busy
umount: /var/run: device is busy
umount: /: device is busy

Then after that if I try to sudo mount -a despite the errors, I get:

Couldn't mount device '/dev/sde1': Operation not supported
Windows did not shut down properly.  Try to mount volume in windows, shut down and try again.
Mount failed.

If I remove that line out of fstab, my drive will mount properly, but without write available. What am I doing wrong?

Did you ever figure this out? I'm getting the same error message. Can anyone shed some light?

Couldn't mount device '/dev/hdb1': Operation not supported
Windows did not shut down properly.  Try to mount volume in windows, shut down and try again.
Mount failed.

[givré]

Okay, for everybody:
Ntfs-3g need an clean partition before mounting it. In that way, it prevent any corruption of data.
If you didn't unmount it properly (suspend, hibernate, hard reboot, reset...), you will have to boot on windows, and reboot again.
If it don't work, run a scandisk on windows (not yet that kind of tool for NTFS on linux), and retry.
Understand that if it bother you for that, it's good. And never try to force to mount.

I'll add that to the first post, it's a common question.

[Dojomann]

I'm having a problem. The ntfs-3g partition I have is really slow. Copying files takes forever! Just FYI I'm using the i686-smp kernel, that's the only main thing I've modified for my Ubuntu install. Any way to fix this?

[domino]

You'll need to answer a few Q's..

- Are you transfering files to or from the ntfs drive?
- How long does it take to transfer 100mb single file?
- How long does it take to transfer 100mb of a group of files?
- Are your transfering from IDE to usb drive, to sata, to scsi, etc?
- Is it faster if you transfer files using ntfs drivers to your Linux desktop?

[QwertyManiac]

Can someone tell me how to remove this support please? I kind of dont need it atm and cant figure out how to remove, will editing the fstab entr alone work/be enough ?

[domino]

try adding this after every ntfs mount point in fstab:

ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1

[QwertyManiac]

Ohk, thanks, it worked!

[Dojomann]

- Are you transfering files to or from the ntfs drive?

To the ntfs drive

- How long does it take to transfer 100mb single file?

Wouldn't try a 100mb file, a 6.8mb file took about 3 minutes!

- How long does it take to transfer 100mb of a group of files?

The same speed applies to a group.

- Are your transfering from IDE to usb drive, to sata, to scsi, etc?

Transferring on one drive from partition to partition. It's a SATA drive.

- Is it faster if you transfer files using ntfs drivers to your Linux desktop?

I don't get what you mean, explain please.

[domino]

- Are your transfering from IDE to usb drive, to sata, to scsi, etc?

Transferring on one drive from partition to partition. It's a SATA drive.

I'm running IDE so I can't confirm.

- Is it faster if you transfer files using ntfs drivers to your Linux desktop?

I don't get what you mean, explain please.

Unmount all drivers using ntfs-3g driver and remount all drives using ntfs driver. We need to find commonality between both drivers.