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

[ezze66]

please someone help

the output of my fdisk -l does not show my NTFS hardrive with two partitions where I have winxp and my personal files.

[veryforeign]

This works great, apart from one minor detail:

To access my NTFS hdds, i have to go to /media/<dirname> and open the mount. If I click the icon from Computer that refers to the partitions i mounted, it says

"Mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda2 is already mounted on /media/sda2
mount failed"

is this the way it should work, or did I get something wrong?

[J0ris]

Do I need the adjusted pmount? I'm using Feisty alternative. I'm trying to get a usb ntfs drive working with read/write abilities. With ntfs-3g, ntfs-config, pmount and hal installed I still have to manually mount it and only have read access.

Thanks for any reply.

[mateo19]

Hello Givre'!
I am so happy that you offer such comprehensive technical support. Thank you!!!
I have a quick question. I am using the Ubuntu live CD... My Windows crashed and I wanted to use Ubuntu to transfer my files from my internal to my external hard drive. I ran into the FAT32 vs NTFS problem. I have followed your steps and it didn't work. . . I received error messages all along the way. Can I install and use the NTFS driver if I am only the Live CD or do I actually have to install Ubuntu?
Thank you so much!

[SpinningAround]

I'm curius about this program, looks nice but have some question regarding it.

Is it safe? Can it cause a hdd crash, reduced performance or something other that wouldn't happen from regular use throw windows.

I did read that ntfs-3g can't read/write compressed files, will this make it impossible ro write/read rar filer or similar?

Is FAT system still the best system for a two way (windows-linux) save unit? or is there a better?

Thanks in Advance

[jcsewell]

How does one go about accessing an NTFS partition from another client using nfs? Here is my network:

nfs Server <----------> nfs Client
mounted NTFS drive wants to mount NTFS partition

nfs is working on both machines. I can mount home directories from the server on the client.

When I try to mount the NTFS partition, here's what I get:

mount: jsewell-server:/media/NTFS failed, reason given by server: Permission denied

I checked permissions on the NTFS partition on the server. owner and group are "root". All files and directories have rwx permissions for user, group, and world. So it seems like anybody should be able to access those files.

Why am I getting permission denied?


-James

[jcsewell]

That little network diagram didn't come out too good. Let me try another one:

nfs Server
NTFS mounted drive
|
|
|
nfs Client
wants to mount NTFS partition

[nickpaton]

Hi James

I've got exactly the same problem.

Have a look at the excellent HOWTO: NFS Server/Client.

Somewhere within the 18 (currently) pages, a couple of posters have experienced this same problem with what appears to be no solution.
Within the topic there's a very useful list of 'Gotchas', and I wonder if it's something to do with the difference in block sizes between NTFS and ext3 (ie between NTFS on the server to ext3 on the client.)

As tried by someone, I then created an ext3 partition on the drive and found I could nfs between PC's no problem.

A mystery.

[B.A.L.]

OK, I'm quite new at Linux, I now have a triple boot vista/xp/ubuntu laptop, and I wanted to copy files from ubuntu to the windows partitions , so I did the installation, and everything you said. After it, I can write to the XP partition, but not to the Vista partition. Now, before I installed ntfs-3g, the Vista already had a name, while the XP partition was known as the ''50,5 GB'' partition. Then when I installed ntfs-3g, it did find the ''unknown'' XP partition, but not the Vista partition, so it also didnt change the permissions. Why is this, and how can I still edit the permissions? Please let me know.

[themis]

Hello everyone,

I want to enable ntfs-3g for my external drive and I have a question before I proceed.I started with the disk mounted

I followed the automatic and it didn't work for me,I don't know why.
So I tried manually.

embryo@pollux:~$ sudo fdisk -l | grep NTFS
/dev/sdb5               2       14593   117210208+   7  HPFS/NTFS

so my drive's name is sdb5.
But there wasn't a line in /etc/fstab so I created one .

(line in /etc/fstab)

# Entry for /dev/sdb5
/dev/sdb5     /media/Orion     ntfs-3g     defaults,locale=en_US.utf8   0    0

There is a directory at /media/Orion.(orion is the drive's name)

I unmounted and mounted the volume as I supposed to and got this

embryo@pollux:~$ sudo mount -a
fusermount: failed to access mountpoint /media/Orion: No such file or directory
FUSE mount point creation failed
Unmounting /dev/sdb5 (Orion)

What does this mean and what should I do next??

Thanks for any help!