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

[givré]

Great! Have you submitted a patch to Ubuntu/Canonical and/or Gnome?
Cool indeed!

i commented the bug report https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...hal/+bug/35354 and added the patch, but i don't know if they'll use it, it's probably not the better way to solve the problem ( i don't know why they use major/minor instead of device name, but it's probably for a reason ). Anyway, we'll see.

[kyldere]

I installed ntfs-3g on Sunday (yesterday) and had it working. This morning after the updates, I now have duplicate icons on my desktop for each of my 3 NTFS volumes (one is a USB device, if that matters). The icons for the drives that I had working correctly yesterday have user permissions, but the icons that just showed up today are mounted by root. What have I done wrong? What more information do you need to help? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[yuv]

With the latest driver both of my drivers are in the desktop and in Places.
Everything looks very nice and works like from the box. Just for your info: after "sudo mkdir /media/<whatever>" I made "sudo chown myuser:myuser <whatever>" and "sudo chmod 0777 <whatever>".
Thanks, givré!

[givré]

I installed ntfs-3g on Sunday (yesterday) and had it working. This morning after the updates, I now have duplicate icons on my desktop for each of my 3 NTFS volumes (one is a USB device, if that matters).

you should upgrade ntfs-3g-nautilus-tools

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

ntfs-monitor is now obsolete and has been remove from the package. See also that it's also delete from system > pref > session (should be automatic)

The icons for the drives that I had working correctly yesterday have user permissions, but the icons that just showed up today are mounted by root.

it's the way it sould be, and it's the way it will be. Now it's hal who do the job, and no more a bad fix (ntfs-3g-monitor)

[givré]

With the latest driver both of my drivers are in the desktop and in Places.Everything looks very nice and works like from the box. Just for your info: after "sudo mkdir /media/<whatever>" I made "sudo chown myuser:myuser <whatever>" and "sudo chmod 0777 <whatever>".
Thanks, givré!

in fact permission/owner of /media/<whatever> is set automaticly by mount to the permission/owner select with uid,gid,umask option, so you didn't really need to do that

[mgsfan]

since the update from this morning and afternoonish 2 icons on desktop but only one in computer...

[domino]

We got it
...
This begin to be cool

Great news! Still works here

[msandersen]

With the latest driver both of my drivers are in the desktop and in Places.
Everything looks very nice and works like from the box. Just for your info: after "sudo mkdir /media/<whatever>" I made "sudo chown myuser:myuser <whatever>" and "sudo chmod 0777 <whatever>".
Thanks, givré!

I've mounted my Windows partition like this:

/dev/hda1 /media/Windows ntfs-3g silent,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0007,no_def_opts,allow_other,locale=en_AU.UTF8 0 0

Note:
user id = 1000 is me
group id = 100 is "users", ie anyone with an account
umask = 0007 gives full access to User and Group, but not Others (umask is the opposite of chmod, as it's a mask; ie umask 007 is the same as chmod 770 or chmod ug+rwx).

The developer of ntfs-3g advised using no_def_opts,allow_other but I haven't looked up what it means specifically, though I think it refers to Windows permissions, ie access for non-admins on Windows.

[pt123]

Thanks the new upgrade cause a an error with Synaptic, had to remove ntfs-3g
and then
sudo apt-get install ntfs-3g

Now everything works fine.

Great work

[Hotaru]

I also had an error during update but

sudo apt-get install -f

solved it and everything is just perfect now! I have my desktop icons back, hurrah!