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

[givré]

Hi pastafarian,
Sorry for your bad experience. I need some more information so it'll not happens again:
- which version of the driver did you use ?
- what kind of operation did you do to the corrupted data ?
- what was the error you get ?
- Did you set your local correctly ?

[msandersen]

The only main problem i see (and a lot of time reported) is that ntfs-3g need a really clean partition, so if the drive were not sanely unmounted (hard reboot, hibernation...), it will fail, and you will need to reboot to windows to solve the problem. But that's not really a problem when you do things sanely

That's one advantage the Read-Only kernel driver has, as I understand it, that it can be used to rescue data from a crashed Windows system, ie uncleanly shut down.
I wonder if you set ntfs-3g to RO it will mount an unclean system? It would be preferable, since there would be no danger of corruption then.

[yuv]

Hi, for the normal files it is very very fast but the copy speed for rar archives it is very sloooo...w

What can be done? Where to look for?

I just find out: use cp command because nautilus is very very inneficient!

[givré]

Ok, since we were going into a wall with my first host, i provide a mirror.
You have now the choice between two mirror to install ntfs-3g.
All is explain here : http://givre.cabspace.com/

[jive_turkey]

This looks like a great app, I was just wondering how stable is it, on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being that I don't have to worry, how stable is it. Also are there any quirks about it, like should I watch how much data I transfer or does it have a prolbem reading and writing any specific filetypes. I'm just wondering because I'm slowly converting all my computers over to Linux but my main computer has a few external HD attached and I don't really want to go through the hassle of converting them. Thanx

[domino]

Great! Desktop icons work, Nautilus > Computer works, Places Links works. No more link errors messages. USB drive works as usual.

Thanks again and great job...

[nerdtank]

another humongous shoutout to givre, domino and everybody who provided much needed help for this decidedly kickass driver and everything around it !

just a heads up, I was having trouble getting the pmount package from the cabspace repo, everything was fine with the original one...

thanks again ! =D>

[givré]

another humongous shoutout to givre, domino and everybody who provided much needed help for this decidedly kickass driver and everything around it !

Thanks

just a heads up, I was having trouble getting the pmount package from the cabspace repo, everything was fine with the original one...

Yeah i don't know what's wrong with him, it's the only file which fail. it's in the repo, the name is ok, Packages.gz is ok, but it don't want to download. I'll investiguate that. Tanks for the report

[rogeriovinhal]

None of the two repository options work with me.

The first one gives 404 not found error, and the last one gives 302 found (?) error.

Like this:

http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz  302 Found

And after that, no such package as ntfs-3g exists.

EDIT:

Nevermind, I got Ubuntu 64 here and saw that you don't support it, I tried to build it from source, but it asks for a newer libfuse, and if I try to do the same with it (apt-get source), the 302 error is back again.

Err http://givre.cabspace.com dapper/main fuse 2.5.3-1 (dsc)
  302 Found
Err http://givre.cabspace.com dapper/main fuse 2.5.3-1 (tar)
  302 Found
Err http://givre.cabspace.com dapper/main fuse 2.5.3-1 (diff)
  302 Found
Falha ao baixar http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/fuse_2.5.3-1.dsc  302 Found
Falha ao baixar http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/fuse_2.5.3.orig.tar.gz  302 Found
Falha ao baixar http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper/main/source/fuse_2.5.3-1.diff.gz  302 Found

[sciyoshi]

Is there a wiki page for this? I think it would be rather useful... I'll help out too

Samuel