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

[bodhi.zazen]

looks like you need to make the mount point :

sudo mkdir /media/Orion

[themis]

Ok thanks!

[Schroeder]

Gosh...that was ridiculously easy. Works great! =D>

[CoolRat33]

Hello Givre and others

Thanks for spending so much of your time to support Ubuntu users!
Im very new to Kubuntu and am having problems with NTFS-3g.

I posted my question at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...54606&posted=1

In short, my external NTFS drives are not recognized.
When I examine the System Settings -- Advanced tab -- Disk and File Settings, it reports that the 3 drives exist as /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdb2, and /dev/sdb3
But there was no mount point specified.
I specified "/media" with "Type" set as "Auto", and Enabled each drive. But I"m not able to access the data. I chose "One User at a Time may Enable/Disable".

I can't find NTFS-Config in order to set the mount points. Do I have to do something special in KDE?

But it still does not work. My /media is 'locked' for some reason and I can't access it.

Why did the NTFS drives not mount automatically. I was using MINT 3.0 before, and everything worked smoothly.

Thanks in advance!!

[psych0naut]

hello everybody

i installed ntfs-3g and tried to activate writing on internal and external ntfs partitions but i get following error:
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$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/hdc1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean. Choose one action:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux unless you have Vista, then mount NTFS with
the 'force' option read-write, or with the 'ro' option read-only.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.
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I read the installation instructions and it says:

"boot windows, and then shutdown and boot ubuntu (100% guarentee of success).
If you don't dual boot, get ntfsfix from the ntfsprogs package, run it on the windows device, and add the 'force' option in /etc/fstab for your windows device."

i dont have windows/dual boot so i tried:
sudo ntfsfix /dev/sda5
but i get:
Refusing to operate on read-write mounted device /dev/sda5.

any ideas what to do? tia

[oeolycus]

@ psychonaut

I'm by no means an authority on this sort of thing, but I just noticed that your info says the computer failed to mount /dev/hdc1 and you ran ntsfix on /dev/sda5.

I let Ubuntu do all of the partition mapping, and for me, sda5 is my swap partition. Is that the partition you're having trouble mounting? Is it an external drive you're having trouble with? is sda5 your swap like mine?

Sorry I don't know more.

[oeolycus]

I apologize if this is not the right place to post this, but I haven't gotten much help in the beginner's forum. My external HD is coming up read-only in Ubuntu, but Windows thinks it's fine.

My complete post is here:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=580302

Any help is greatly appreciated!

[SlaughterDog]

(I'm sorry if it's been posted before but I don't want to go thru a 26 page thread)

I just followed the instructions in the opening post, and used the automatic configuring tool to enable write support for internal devices, yet I can't set the permissions for my NTFS partition to allow me to write, and I can't write. Also, I can't unmount it.

And, should I need to, how would I undo everything I did and uninstall it all?

[psych0naut]

@ psychonaut

I'm by no means an authority on this sort of thing, but I just noticed that your info says the computer failed to mount /dev/hdc1 and you ran ntsfix on /dev/sda5.

I let Ubuntu do all of the partition mapping, and for me, sda5 is my swap partition. Is that the partition you're having trouble mounting? Is it an external drive you're having trouble with? is sda5 your swap like mine?

Sorry I don't know more.

hello oeolycus,
sda5 sda6 and sda7 are my NTFS partitions, sda2 is my swap and sda8 is my ext3 partition. wondering why it tries to mount hdc1...

EDIT:
im sorry i messed up i just copied the error message from the instructions here instead of my own, here it is:

$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/disk/by-uuid/4EC4C5D3C4C5BD89': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because NTFS logfile is unclean. Choose one action:
Boot Windows and shutdown it cleanly, or if you have a removable
device then click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows
taskbar notification area before disconnecting it.
Or
Run ntfsfix version 1.13.1 on Linux unless you have Vista.
Or
Mount the NTFS volume with the 'ro' option in read-only mode.

[oeolycus]

@psychonaut

Could you post the output of

sudo fdisk -l && cat /etc/fstab