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

[icecubix]

YEEEEEES!!!!!!!! That's it !!! Finally, after 5 days fighting with it!!
I have entered Windows so that the disc dismounted correctly and linux has automatically recognized me the disc, with ntfs-3g!

Thank you very much givré. Thanks to people as your many novices as me can do the great jump to Linux and send to Windows to take by *** (it's correct this expression in english?). Thanks!!!

And thanks szaka, I have the 1.12.1 versión, I'll install the next version.

Today I'll go happy to bed

[JR_Moneybags]

I'm making ground. At the start of the day I couldn't ./configure FUSE 2.6, however after reading this forum and installing the linux headers I've got that going.

Now I'm stuck again. While tring to MAKE I get the errors:

Making all in kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/user/Installation Files/fuse-2.6.3/fuse-2.6.3/kernel'
make -C /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386 SUBDIRS=`pwd` modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make[2]: ***
No rule to make target `Files/fuse-2.6.3/fuse-2.6.3/kernel'
. Stop.
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.15-26-386'
make[1]: *** [all-spec] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/user/Installation Files/fuse-2.6.3/fuse-2.6.3/kernel'
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

No rule to make target? What is that? and how do I deal with it.

Cheers
JR_Moneybags

[givré]

You need to add --enable-kernel-module option to ./configure, but this is not the recommended way of compiling the fuse module in this howto. You should have a look at usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.Debian

[starscalling]

Failed to fetch http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 302 Found
Failed to fetch http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dis...86/Packages.gz 302 Found


apparently that repo is down !_!
perhaps i could offer one up

[givré]

starscalling, this one is down, but i'll set up an other one soon. Choose ana other one for now. Thanks.

[andrewlinn957]

Does this program mean that while in Ubuntu i can read from and write to an NTFS partition, but will still need a driver like FS-Driver to be able to read from and write to my ubuntu partition while in windows?

Also, is using Fs-Driver recommended?

And just to be clear, does NTFS-3g only enable ubuntu to read from and write to NTFS, or does NTFS-3g actually convert your linux partition to the NTFS file system?

Thanks

[Satanister]

Sorry but the guide did nothing to mount my ntfs partition (300 gig drive)

sudo fdisk -l gave:
Disk /dev/hda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 38536 309540388+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 38537 38913 3028252+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 38537 38913 3028221 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 9964 80035798+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sda: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 36481 293033601 42 SFS

Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 38913 312568641 83 Linux

(sda1 is the partition I want to mount)

fstab:

# /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/hda1 :
UUID=1e2e5858-266a-46e9-b685-56dfd634fa02 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/hda5 :
UUID=0f5cbfe2-a029-453d-85ba-96a95b38cb19 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/NTFS ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.utf8 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/DATA ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /media/TEST ext3 defaults 0 0

(added the sda1 line manualy)

sudo mount -a returned this:

satanister@bitch:~$ sudo mount -a
Failed to access '/dev/sda1': No such file or directory

The rest of the drives mount fine
I'm stumped

please help

[mac.ryan]

I am an enthusiastic user of the work you did on the NTFS r/w feature, but since some days, I get an error when I update the system. Useless to say, I did not change any setting on the repository tab of synaptics....

The error says: "Could not download all repository indexes" and the list of the unavailable ones is:

http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dists/edgy/Release.gpg
http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dis...tion-en_US.bz2
http://givre.cabspace.com/ubuntu/dis...tion-en_US.bz2

any idea of what might have gone wrong? Thanks!

[kodoku]

Has anyone had issues with ntfs-3g writing to external harddrives connected through Firewire? I'm using the latest ntfs-3g driver, and it can write perfectly to internal drives. But writing to my external takes hours just for a 100mb file, while using up 50+% cpu. Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

[trapanator]

Has anyone had issues with ntfs-3g writing to external harddrives connected through Firewire? I'm using the latest ntfs-3g driver, and it can write perfectly to internal drives. But writing to my external takes hours just for a 100mb file, while using up 50+% cpu. Can anyone tell me what's wrong?

me! I have a 200GB firewire external hard drive and the driver is working flawless! I use it to read and write DVD ISO images (4,7GBs) and I do it in less than 5 minutes...