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

[givré]

@ronoc: What are the error when you type :

pmount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/lacie

Don't blame ubuntu for that. Until there is no stable solution, they can't do more than they do.

@MyBigToe,adds2one,RRS : Sorry guys, that was a stupid one . Fix now.
But i can't change gksu to sudo since gksu is the recommended way for graphical apps.

NEVER use sudo to start graphical programs. You should always use gksudo or kdesu to run such programs, otherwise new login attempts may fail.

@domino : Good to hear that it work at least for one personn . Now to remove them, just kill ntfs-3g-monitor, remove it from gnome-session, and have a look at apps>nautilus>desktop in gconf.

@RRS : did you upgrade ntfs-3g also during this update. Have a look at the common question section.

@bluntu : don't use ntfs-3g for really important data. corruption are near 0,0001% if you use it in the proper manner (see the WHAT YOU SHOULD'NT DO section) but there is always the possibility that it happens. That also why i recommand the copy/paste.

@mgsfan : have a look at point 4

[domino]

Good to hear that it work at least for one personn . Now to remove them, just kill ntfs-3g-monitor, remove it from gnome-session, and have a look at apps>nautilus>desktop in gconf.

Damn, If I wasn't so sick, I'd remember that I added that to my sessions. Yea, I ticked off the gconf Nautilus feature already.

I think you'll only get problem rather than success posts . I'm just glad it's only a few people having problems/misunderstanding.

[the fish]

well i try this method and now my HD comes up with "disks-conf-sda1" and wont let me access it. yarrrrgh

[givré]

"disks-conf-sda1" is the name of your disk on the desktop ?
Let see your /etc/mtab, /etc/fstab and the result of 'sudo fdisk -l'.
Thanks.

An important release is coming (fix the rename/moving problem) i will work on it.

[givré]

New version upload.
Please update, change are not big but are important.
Now moving/renaming work for all ntfs directory (tested)

[saracen]

@givre: I just wanted to send a shout out to you. You've done excellent with this thread responding to absolutely every request for help and giving us all updated ntfs-3g packages. Great job man!

[saracen]

EDIT: double post

[saracen]

hey givre, i'm getting a "File not found" error whenever i try to move/delete certain files. It's happening quite often now after the latest updates. I read something about the locale maybe causing some trouble, but my drives are mounted as locale=en_US.utf8. Any ideas?

[pt123]

When I run this
ntfs-3g-monitor &

I get this error in the terminal:-
~$ ntfs-3g-monitor &
[1] 12381
user@domain:~$ cat: /sys/block/hdb/removable: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/ntfs-3g-monitor: line 45: [: =: unary operator expected

[cord]

I have tried reading through as many pages as I can but it gets hard once you have read 2-3 20+ page threads in the course of installing different packages.

Anyhow, I was wondering if anyone had tried installing on Ubuntu AMD64 and if so, which debs did you use?

Thanks in advance