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

[givré]

Then my terminal shows me nothing after I write my pass...

Ok, that mean that run well. So there is something wrong.
Are you a dapper or an edgy guy?
What is the repo you used ?
Can you past me your /etc/fstab

[kschelde]

I'm a edgy girl. To be hornest I don't know which repo - I just used my synaptic package manager...
My /etc/fstab , then I suppose you mean this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=bf27d32b-c90a-42cb-8c06-caac6921d9d3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
# /dev/hdc1 /media/hdc1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
# /dev/hda5
UUID=9490a906-4873-4ecf-b211-7e8a11a3e896 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

Hope I'm understandeble...

[givré]

# /dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
# /dev/hdc1 /media/hdc1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0

There is the problem. We use # for comment, and so your lines about ntfs-3g were ignore. You should uncomment them.

[kschelde]

When I tried to get my /etc/fstab to correct the problem my terminal wrote following before handing my /etc/fstab:

(gedit:4691): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

I don't know what that means. I tried to edit my /etc/fstab anyway and reboot, but I still can't see my ntfs-partitions.

[givré]

(gedit:4691): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

Don't care of that, that's ok.

Ok, so let me see again your fstab and the result of 'mount -a' in a terminal

[kschelde]

Ok, so let me see again your fstab and the result of 'mount -a' in a terminal

my fstab now:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=bf27d32b-c90a-42cb-8c06-caac6921d9d3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hdb1 /media/hdb1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/hdc1 /media/hdc1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
# /dev/hda5
UUID=9490a906-4873-4ecf-b211-7e8a11a3e896 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

When I try mount -a:

lara@Tomb:~$ sudo mount -a
Password:
Failed to mount '/dev/hdb1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because the NTFS journal file is unclean. Choices are:
A) Shutdown Windows properly.
B) Click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar
notification area before disconnecting the device.
C) Use 'Eject' from Windows Explorer to safely remove the device.
D) If you ran chkdsk previously then boot Windows again which will
automatically initialize the journal.
E) Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux which will reset the NTFS journal.
F) Mount the volume read-only by using the 'ro' mount option.
Failed to mount '/dev/hdc1': Operation not supported
Mount is denied because the NTFS journal file is unclean. Choices are:
A) Shutdown Windows properly.
B) Click the 'Safely Remove Hardware' icon in the Windows taskbar
notification area before disconnecting the device.
C) Use 'Eject' from Windows Explorer to safely remove the device.
D) If you ran chkdsk previously then boot Windows again which will
automatically initialize the journal.
E) Run 'ntfsfix' on Linux which will reset the NTFS journal.
F) Mount the volume read-only by using the 'ro' mount option.

But I don't have windows running anymore. Is there a possiblity to get this to run through ubuntu?

[givré]

my fstab now:
When I try mount -a:
But I don't have windows running anymore. Is there a possiblity to get this to run through ubuntu?

This is weird, because the safest way to solve the problem is to reboot on windows.
Anyway, you can fix that like that :
- install ntfsprogs package

sudo apt-get ntfsprogs

- run ntfsfix on both /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdc1

sudo ntfsfix /dev/hdb1
sudo ntfsfix /dev/hdc1

- add a force option in /etc/fstab for both ntfs partition so it looks like that :

/dev/hdc1 /media/hdc1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,force 0 0

[kschelde]

Still nothing when I wrote ntfsfix it came up with error on both partitions:

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... FAILED
Error setting volume flags.

Maybe I ought to be contend with only being able to read my partitions for a while until I get a better hold of Ubuntu. *S* Is there an "easy" way to "go back" so I can read my partition? (My music is on there, I miss it. *S*)

[givré]

Still nothing when I wrote ntfsfix it came up with error on both partitions:

Maybe I ought to be contend with only being able to read my partitions for a while until I get a better hold of Ubuntu. *S* Is there an "easy" way to "go back" so I can read my partition? (My music is on there, I miss it. *S*)

You can still try to add the force option, that may work.
Also if you want read only mount, just add ro (like read-only) in the option, so it looks like :

/dev/hdc1 /media/hdc1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8,ro 0 0

[kschelde]

I tried the force option before, eventhougt i got error on ntfsfix, and that didn't help.
I just tried with read-only this time, and no luck with that either.
Thank you very much for trying to help me. *S* I'm going on chistmas-holiday now. and I think that I try to reinstall when I return between Chistmas and new year.
Merry Christmas. *S*