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

[givré]

you also have to install : ntfs-3g-nautilus-tools 8)
i need to make things more clear. Anyway, that's a prealpha

[domino]

Okay 2 things:

- enable using this command in terminal: nautilus-script-manager enable mount_with_ntfs-3g... there was a typo on the original instructions.

- I have 2 internal partitions using ntfs-3g stated in fstab. When ext drive automounts (no write access), I right click and mount with write access. it will unmount one of the other internal partitons. The script does not unmount the ext drive.

Maybe, I should work with the external drive for now. Then iron out the other 2 internal drives after this is solved.

[givré]

- enable using this command in terminal: nautilus-script-manager enable mount_with_ntfs-3g... there was a typo on the original instructions.

Yeah, i'm the king of the typo

- I have 2 internal partitions using ntfs-3g stated in fstab. When ext drive automounts (no write access), I right click and mount with write access. it will unmount one of the other internal partitons. The script does not unmount the ext drive.

mount_with_ntfs-3g should lauch nautilus
What is the current directory of this nautilus when that happens?

Maybe, I should work with the external drive for now. Then iron out the other 2 internal drives after this is solved.

I don't think so. You are a good testeur because of that.

Thanks a lot dude.

[domino]

Present state: 2 ntfs internal partitions automounted with ntfs-3g drivers stated in fstab. External drive not mounted and turned off.

1. Restult when ext. drive is turned on: device /dev/sda1 automounted using ntfs driver.

2. Result when right-click on mounted ext drive with mount_with_ntfs-3g script: (see screen below)



3. Right click --> Eject ext. drive.

4a. Right-click unmounted ext. drive in Nautilus with mount_with_ntfs-3g script: (see screen below)


4b. created /media/External directory and tried to mount_with_ntfs-3g: Same error as 4a.

4c. Created /media/sda1 directory and tried to mount_with_ntfs-3g: Same error as 4a.

5. I mounted ext. drive using only ntfs driver and right-click --> mount_with_ntfs-3g: Same error as 4a.

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Internal drive mount/unmount operation using mount_with_ntfs-3g script.

1. I unmount bot WinXP and Vista drives

2. Tried to mount using mount_with_ntfs-3g. See screen for results.

Winxp:



Vista:

mount_with_ntfs-3g should lauch nautilus
What is the current directory of this nautilus when that happens?

Nautilus never launches because int. and ext. drive does not mount using mount_with_ntfs-3g script.

[givré]

Okay, that's the kind of problem i was expected, but that could be hard to go throw them.
Actually, the label of my flash stick contain the vendor (and only that) and i take this infomation to to get the device name, because i can't have access of it directly.
But since the label of USB disk are set differently, that'll be harder than expected. I will have to make two different case.
I guess your External is mounted under /media/External
and WinXP under /media/WinXP
If this is the case, and i hope that it's the case for all external drive, we have largely enough information to make it. The 0.2 will come soon and more solid than this bad 0.1.
If it's not the case, i have no idea where to go.

Thanks.

[domino]

I guess your External is mounted under /media/External

The ntfs driver automounts the ext. drive as "External". ntfs-3g automounts the ext. drive by what ever name you set your mount point to in fstab. If you don't create your own mount point in fstab, it sets it to sda1 or sdb1 depending on the usb devices you have installed.

If it makes it any easier, we can always force udev to make the ext drive mount to sda1 as I did earlier.

[givré]

If it makes it any easier, we can always force udev to make the ext drive mount to sda1 as I did earlier.

We will not need that. If you have the device or the mount point, you can have both of them. The thing is, with my usb stick i had none of them, so i had to use what i had: the name of the vendor.
That should be ok.

[domino]

Okay. Well i'm always arond if yo need anything. I think if you had the tools, this would have been fixed much sooner

[givré]

New release is there
After a lot of work, i finaly manage to release the version 0.2
of ntfs-3g-nautilus-script . I hope that will be the good one.
I go to sleep a bit now, so more info tomarrow 8)

[lordsauron]

Hi,
Congrats for a great piece of work ... Safe n speedy NTFS write in GNU/Linux at last ...

I tried to use the ntfs-3g drivers for loading my NTFS filesystems and it worked wonderfully well if I run a command like :

ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /media/sda1

But when I put an entry in fstab, it somehow doesn't seem to work [I have included fuse in my modules list]. When the system reboots, none of the NTFS filesystems are mounted and I have to mount them manually again. Is there a workaround or am I missing something here. Have given my fstab & mtab below. Once again, keep it up, great job ...

fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda5       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda1       /media/hda1     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/hda2       /media/hda2     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/hda3       /media/hda3     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/sda1       /media/sda1     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/sda5       /media/sda5     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/sda6       /media/sda6     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/sda7       /media/sda7     ntfs-3g silent,umask=0,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
/dev/hda7       /usr            ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda6       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

mtab

/dev/hda5 / ext2 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
/sys /sys sysfs rw 0 0
varrun /var/run tmpfs rw 0 0
varlock /var/lock tmpfs rw 0 0
procbususb /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
devshm /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
lrm /lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/volatile tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/hda3 /media/hda3 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/sda1 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda5 /media/sda5 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/sda6 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/sda7 ntfs rw,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 0
/dev/hda7 /usr ext2 rw 0 0