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

[givré]

Thanks guy,
But a little precision, you proably know that you can't really move files between two partition, the basic operation is just a creation in a partition and a deletation on the other (even with the mv command), is that what you did ? What was the direction of the operation ? deletation or creation in the ntfs ?
In fact even when we say moving file in a partition, it's more a renaming, since the only thing we change is the path of the file.

[skyhopper88]

Check Disk did the trick. I know I did so beforehand, 2nd time's the charm I guess.

[pacificske]

Hey,
I did everything you said but I always get this error:

root@ubuntu:/home/pacificske# umount /dev/sdb1
root@ubuntu:/home/pacificske# mount /dev/sdb1
fusermount: failed to open /dev/fuse: No such file or directory
fuse_mount failed.
Unmounting /dev/sdb1 (Mp3 station)

my fstab looks like this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /media/hda6 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda7 /media/hda7 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hda8 /media/hda8 reiserfs defaults 0 2
/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 ntfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/testc ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Is there anyone who can help this Linux n00by?
thanks

[rabid9797]

this howto worked perfectly! i have flawles write access to two of my windows ntfs drives now. thanks!

[MilesTEG1]

I'm using the Astone IsoDrive 300. I would love not having to manually turn off my ext drive after un-mounting. Wanna trade? Anyway, are you sure it's not a feature to your ext drive?

edit: you mean the light flickers. The light flickers on my drive also. It never looses power. How do yo know it looses power? the 3.5 ext drive should have it's own power supply to the AC adaptor. Is yours getting power from the PC's USB connector?

My external usb drive is a box containing a classical IDE HD.
The box is a MaxinPower ZX-9 :
When i click on eject, it cause a umount, but a powerloss too, and less than one second later a poweroff without any automount...
I don't think it's good for my exteral HD inside... because I hear the off/on of the dd...

My DD is a Hitachi Deskstar 250Go IDE ATA 133

[givré]

Is there anyone who can help this Linux n00by?
thanks

You forget to mount fuse:

sudo modprobe fuse

[domino]

My external usb drive is a box containing a classical IDE HD.

When i click on eject, it cause a umount, but a powerloss too, and less than one second later a poweroff without any automount...
I don't think it's good for my exteral HD inside... because I hear the off/on of the dd...

My DD is a Hitachi Deskstar 250Go IDE ATA 133

The clicks may be the cylinder head parking. I have a Seagate drive with fluid bearings so it's really silent when it parks the head after unmounting, but it never turns off unless I manually turn off the switch on the back of the ext case. In my case, after unmounting, I can remount only using the ntfs drivers when I double click on the Drive icon in Nautilus.

When you say the ext box LED indicator turns off, do you mean the lights are off permanently? Can you replicate this behavior in Windows or Mac? Confirm with the manufacturer if this is a proper behavior.

[MilesTEG1]

The clicks may be the cylinder head parking. I have a Seagate drive with fluid bearings so it's really silent when it parks the head after unmounting, but it never turns off unless I manually turn off the switch on the back of the ext case. In my case, after unmounting, I can remount only using the ntfs drivers when I double click on the Drive icon in Nautilus.

When you say the ext box LED indicator turns off, do you mean the lights are off permanently? Can you replicate this behavior in Windows or Mac? Confirm with the manufacturer if this is a proper behavior.

Yes I confirm that. When the light turn off, it means that the drive is shutdown...

I can't found the manufacter website.

ANd on windows, it doesn't do that when I remove the drive with the green arrow near the clock int taskbar

[telperion]

Thanks guy,
But a little precision, you proably know that you can't really move files between two partition, the basic operation is just a creation in a partition and a deletation on the other (even with the mv command), is that what you did ? What was the direction of the operation ? deletation or creation in the ntfs ?
In fact even when we say moving file in a partition, it's more a renaming, since the only thing we change is the path of the file.

Move = in win32 explorer, select and cut a file, and paste in another disk (partition),
(other way is copy, paste, and after delete in 2 operation).
Yes I now.
The direction is ntfs-3g disk to ntfs disk.

I'm using ntfs-3g test partition, for bridge to win32, instead of fat32 partition

[givré]

So if i understand, what you did is:
- in ubuntu, you put some file in your ntfs-3g partition
- switch to windows, you took those files and put it in an other ntfs partition that you don't run with ntfs-3g in linux.
- a scandisk on the partition run with ntfs-3g in linux discover some error due to the deleted file that needed a reboot to be fix.
- reboot with scandisk at startup fix the error.
Well, that is a kind of situation that is probably not well tested. I'll mail Szaka soon. Stop me before if i was wrong in the description of your problem.
Thanks.