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

[zhanglini]

I have a question here, would this ntfs-3 accidentally wipe out my external hard drive?

[mikeize]

I have a question here, would this ntfs-3 accidentally wipe out my external hard drive?

I've never heard of such a thing. You'll be fine.

-mike

[zhanglini]

Holy cow!
I can't see my external drive in Ubuntu any more!
I followed the procedure and checked the boxes to allow r/w for both internal and external. But when I clicked the ex-drive on the desktop, a message box showed up asking me to force-mount the drive, so I added a line in /etc/fstab the way I was told. Now the drive is nowhere to be found! (It is fine in Windows).
I have also been struggling with wireless (bcm4306, the light is on but there is no connection) for the past month. Maybe Fawn is not for me, I am waiting to try Gibbon the ape, if that fails, I have to go back to Winnows for a while.
Gosh I hate Winnows!

[mssever]

I added a line in /etc/fstab the way I was told. Now the drive is nowhere to be found! (It is fine in Windows).

Could you post your fstab, as well as the output of typing

mount

?

I have also been struggling with wireless (bcm4306, the light is on but there is no connection) for the past month.

I have a bcm4306. I don't know much about wireless, but this is what worked for me: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php...30&postcount=2 That post is about Dapper. I think that there have been a few changes (notably that nm-applet is installed by default--but the principle should be the same.

[Dragonborn64]

Hey-
I downloaded the auto-config but forgot to run it before my computer was rebooted.......... when I tried to mount, it came up with an error...........

~$ sudo mount -a
Password:
$LogFile indicates unclean shutdown (0, 0)
Failed to mount '/dev/sda1': 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.

Since I don't have a dual boot, and I wanted to write to my external hard drive, I ran ntfsfix ..........

ntfsfix /dev/sda1
Mounting volume... FAILED
Attempting to correct errors...
Processing $MFT and $MFTMirr...
Reading $MFT... OK
Reading $MFTMirr... OK
Comparing $MFTMirr to $MFT... OK
Processing of $MFT and $MFTMirr completed successfully.
Setting required flags on partition... OK
Going to empty the journal ($LogFile)... OK
NTFS volume version is 3.1.
NTFS partition /dev/sda1 was processed successfully.

after this I again tried to mount the hard drive and I saw this ..............

~$ sudo mount -a
Volume is scheduled for check. Please boot into Windows TWICE, or
use the 'force' mount option. For example type on the command line:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o force

Or add the option to the relevant row in the /etc/fstab file:

/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,force 0 0

So I chose to force the mount with .............

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1 -o force ......................

and so far my 120 Gig USB external hard drive is working great!!

It took a little bit of work and patience, but I can now use the hard drive I have been unable to use since I loaded Ubuntu onto my computer! And since I love to solve problems like this, which the new driver ntfs-3g has allowed me to do, the world is great again!!

Thanks a million!!

Dragon64

[zhanglini]

[QUOTE=mssever;3413976]Could you post your fstab, as well as the output of typing

mount

?

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/hda2 :
UUID=d51d9da0-b903-481d-9b93-5fca9e075008 / ext3
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda1 :
UUID=2E1493A714937117 /media/hda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=zh_CN.UTF-8 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=DBA1-1E2C /windows vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda6 :
UUID=f5129773-f026-4c86-bfa3-53f8843ffd6b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults, 0 0

SimpleDrive is my Ex. I had some comments but the system had deleted it.

The following is what I got from "mount" command.
hui@hui-laptop:~$ mount
/dev/hda2 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.20-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/disk/by-uuid/2E1493A714937117 on /media/hda1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096)
/dev/hda5 on /windows type vfat (rw,utf8,umask=007,gid=46)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
hui@hui-laptop:~$

Thank you so much!!!

[mssever]

/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults, 0 0

You have a stray comma in your fstab. That might be your problem. Also, it isn't a bad idea to specify your locale. For example, I'm in the US, so the line for me would be

/dev/sda1    /media/SimpleDrive    ntfs-3g    defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0 0

You can get a list of the locales installed on your machine with

locale -a

Once you've fixed your fstab, type

sudo mount /media/SimpleDrive

Post any errors you get. If there are no error messages, then you should be good to go. You can type

mount

and verify that your partition is actually in the list.

On another note, please surround the contents of files or error message in [code] tags. Such tags preserve the formatting and make your posts much easier to follow.

[zhanglini]

type

sudo mount /media/SimpleDrive

Post any errors you get.

hui@hui-laptop:~$ sudo mount /media/SimpleDrive
Password:
[mntent]: line 17 in /etc/fstab is bad
mount: cannot find /media/SimpleDrive  in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
hui@hui-laptop:~$

by the way the following is in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults, locale=zh_CN.UTF-8 0 0

Thank you so much!!!

[jdackle]

I don't know why the gpg key doesn't seem to work. Try re-adding it.
If it doesn't work, you can just ignore that warning and continue the installation.

Well, yeah, I didn't really want to install something that apparently is NOT authenticated though the packager himeslf/herself claims it's signed (authenticated) but ...
I did have a similar problem a good while back with another repo (I think it was GoogleEarth's) so it's likely my system's prob...

So I did install the thing, did the automatic configuration and it seems to be working fine!

Thanks

[mssever]

by the way the following is in /etc/fstab:

/dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults, locale=zh_CN.UTF-8 0 0

You can't have spaces between your mount options. Try this instead:

 /dev/sda1 /media/SimpleDrive ntfs-3g defaults,locale=zh_CN.UTF-8 0 0